Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college in its revolt from the temporarily attractive freedom of the one arm lunch. The legal profession, of all others, is the most conducive to, and derives much of its enjoyment from, interminable discussions and conversation. Law students may have been justified by physical discouragement in refusing to eat in Memorial Hall, but in the process, they have given the college a long desired vault and must depend now, for any dining center which may be desired in the future, on the fickle favor of philanthropy...
Aboard the ship Sailor Cowart spurned spirits of ammonia. Said he: "Gimme something to eat." He set off immediately on a curiosity tour of the Akron. After the ship was successfully moored later that evening, Sailor Cowart stubbornly refused to tell his story to reporters, despite the friendly coaxing of Commander Rosendahl. A welterweight boxer out for the All-Navy championship, he said: "I'll have to see my manager before I talk." His manager sold the story to the highest bidder, Hearst's Universal Service...
...Frank Kells Boland of Atlanta re-emphasized the fact that purgatives and delayed operations are the outstanding causes of death from appendicitis. More men have the disease than women. More men die from it than women. Negroes show comparatively few cases of appendicitis until they abandon simple foods and eat more meat, sugar and "things that have been polished, pickled, frozen, thawed and sterilized." Some whites have learned not to take a physic for every stomachache, observed Dr. Boland. But not many Negroes. Favorite purgatives of Negroes are castor oil and epsoni salts...
...nine months babe & chimpanzee were inseparable. They quarreled occasionally, but not often. Together they learned to wear shoes, eat with a spoon, drink from a glass, use a rake & hoe, untie a slipknot. When the chimpanzee was scolded it cried like a baby. Soon both learned to understand a few words. At first the chimpanzee understood better than the baby. When Dr. Kellogg left the room the chimpanzee remembered for 30 minutes which door he used; the child forgot after five minutes. When Dr. Kellogg called, the chimpanzee was the first to answer...
This is the Vagabond's present existence, but he must stop writing about it now. The hour grows late and he must eat as other men do. Besides, as the sun plunges into the west, so, at the same time, the moon surges up in the east, and he must go and do as other...