Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skins and a photograph of his father-in-law in a gold frame. (President Hoover had sent the Emperor his autographed photograph for a coronation gift.) The meal that followed was a difficult one. President Roosevelt's stomach was still bothering him. The Ras, a Coptic Christian, could eat no meat, milk or butter that day. Mrs. Henry Nesbit, White Housekeeper, served clams, fish, three vegetables, fruit salad, water biscuits, pineapple ice. The Prince passed up the clams. Next day was Emperor Haile Selassie's birthday. The President cabled him: ". . . My most hearty congratulations and best wishes...
...breadbasket when a 1? and 2? increase was indicated. North Dakota bakers set the minimum price for a "standard" loaf of bread at 12?, a 1? rise. In Rome and Syracuse, N. Y. a 1-lb. loaf of bread rose 1?. "You can't have your cake and eat it," observed President Henry Stude of the American Bakers Association, denying the 3? bread price upping in Iowa which horrified Secretary Wallace week before (TIME. July...
...London a century ago Charles Dickens got a job in a warehouse at Old Hungerford Stairs. There for twelve hours a day he tied up pot after pot of blacking, stuck labels on them, earned barely enough to eat. Years later Dickens, out of the bitterness of his own heart, wrote the horrors of child exploitation into his stories of Oliver Twist, undertaker's apprentice and thief, and of David Copperfield who toiled long'and dismally for a London wine merchant. All England was shocked and startled by Dickens' tut ionized propaganda. Resentment was quickly followed...
...despite objections, mounted its platform. A hotel detective came running to stop the clamor. Howard Scott the Technocrat left. Then, rapidly, General Westervelt was obliged to go to Washington on Government business. Clarence Darrow was "tickled to death" to avoid the Technocrat banquet. Eventually the only ones ready to eat were Howard Scott the Technocrat and his loyal men. But they would not, or could not, pay for 500 Hotel Morrison banquet covers. Nor was there anyone else whom the Chief Caterer could find willing or able...
...maggots eat dead tissue and germs, but do not touch live flesh. This maggot habit the late Surgeon William Stevenson Baer applied to the treatment of festering wounds and bone diseases. He got astonishingly good results. Surgeons every- where are beginning to use the Baer technique...