Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metropolitan Club. I was at the supper at the New York Yacht Club and stood beside the glass doors of the small committee room where the Club's committee had corralled Prince Henry, when he pushed the doors open and said, "Gentlemen, I think I will eat my supper with all the members of your club," and thus won the hearts of the rank and file. I recall that he came to the Yacht Club with his host, now General Cornelius Vanderbilt, and that a debonair feature of the occasion in his smart naval uniform was my longtime friend...
...Montevideo, Uruguay, 500 tuberculous hospital patients declared that their food was unfit to eat, went on a hunger strike. Doctors & nurses insisted the food was good, induced them to break the strike after two days. Few hours after their first meal most of the patients, all the doctors & nurses were stricken with ptomaine poisoning...
...heard about the wreck of an airplane off Havana in which one Edwin F. Atkins Jr., a U. S. planter in Cuba, had been lost. Friends of the planter identified the shark's meal. For years thereafter whenever a person asked him the old question, "Will sharks eat human beings?" Sharkman Young produced a photograph of his partner standing in front of the disemboweled shark, holding the Atkins human arm. Last fortnight that sickening picture, with many another, was reproduced in Sharkman Young's garrulous, rambling fisherman's book Shark! Shark!, set down for him by Horace...
...conceal; the audience watched the faces for signs that would show the near collapse of one or another of the youths. If the audience tired of watching it was amused by seeing two buffoons push one another over, spit at one another, make lewd jokes, or it could eat popcorn and ice-cream. The contestants shuffled on, around and around...
...pretend?--"Blessings on you, Carla," says Rudi as the bullet pierces his arm, or chest... "Sooch a lock of patriotism, not to shoot the spy." The director paled. "Don't be crazy, Professor. They shot Mata Hari, and Marlene Dietrich in her spy picture. And did the public eat it, did the public eat it? No. The public wants realism...