Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...divorced his father. On behalf of his snaggle-toothed partisan Small, Big Bill proceeded to give Judge Horner a forensic log-ride. Downstate rural clodhoppers gawped, snickered and nodded approvingly when he shouted: "My friends, I don't have to tell you that Levys don't eat hogs. If Horner is elected, hog prices are bound to drop. Furthermore, Jews run pawnshops, and the first thing Horner will do if he gets to Springfield is open a pawnshop. He was put up by Tony Cermak [Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chicago, who turned Thompson out of office...
Worse still, the price of rationed food was drastically upped. Egg prices rose 250% overnight. Meat prices almost doubled. This winter the only foreigners in Russia to eat well will be the diplomatic corps, privileged to bring in food duty free under diplomatic seal...
...deal enables Goodrich to have its cake and eat it, too. Voting control goes to the buying executives through ownership of 3,300 of the 6,000 shares of common outstanding. The rest of the common goes to Goodrich along with 120,000 shares of preferred stock. Since this preferred stock is convertible share for share into common after Jan. 1, 1937, Goodrich can eventually regain control. If no dividends are paid, the preferred receives voting rights on the same date, control reverting to Goodrich. Though Hood officials say the amount is a secret, something was paid Goodrich...
...commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children."-St. Matthew...
Meantime he had wormed his way into aristocratic salons of the Faubourg Saint- Germain, gradually built up a reputation as a man of fashion, a wit, a beautiful talker. So great was his renown and his care for it that when he entertained at dinner he would eat beforehand so that his tongue could wag undisturbed. His entrances were timed strategically: just as a gathering was preparing to break up Proust would enter, set the room abuzz with his rapid-fire monolog: "Do you know whether the Due de? stayed on in the boudoir with Mme Z? Could you explain...