Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eat More Wheat" campaign was instituted by a well-known and widely advertised beauty parlor to popularize curves. Rather than merely give "hand-outs" to the reporters, the new publicity men attempt to create new situations which the reporters cannot ignore. Recently, many newspapers carried pictures of the driver of an ox-cart shaking hands with President Hoover. The man was supposed to have drives his ox-cart full of Aroostook potatoes all the way from Maine to Washington. In such a fashion, the potato growen set the name of their product before the public. The actual facts...
...essential rules which hampers friendly relations in the Houses it that which restricts the student's ability to eat in another House than his own. The red tape which is involved at present in entertaining a guest from a different House is an unmitigated nuisance. Only the routine problems of book-keeping stand in the way, and they should not be allowed to prevent the free intercourse which is one of the chief graces of undergraduate life...
...story.* The elder Mozart stalked patrons for his son until he was grown. The family needed money but rings and snuffboxes often paid for 18th Century music. Little, bewigged Mozart sat on the Empress Maria Theresa's ample lap. Once he was permitted to watch Louis XV eat. But with all his genius he never found one large-hearted patron on whom he could depend. He married an amiable, unpractical creature, pregnant or convalescent from childbirth for six years out of their union of nine. He went deeper & deeper in debt. Figaro earned him $200, Don Giovanni about...
...Englishmen, the sardine is a pilchard (Sardina pilchardus), poor cousin of the English Herrings. Mediterranean peoples eat a smaller sardine (Sardina pilchardus sardina). Japanese, Chileans and Boers eat the Sardina sagax. Southern Australians and New Zealanders eat the Sardina neopilchardus. But in the U. S. any small fish of the herring family is a sardine, provided it comes in a can. Official U. S. attitude on the sardine question was clarified last week by Dr. A. C. Hunter of the Federal Food & Drug Administration. Said he: "Members of the herring family classed as sardines include not only the true sardine...
Under the eye of watchful technicians, "Fuzzie," a gray Angora cat, is allowed to eat from a dish of pulverized fish in milk set upon delicate scales which are arranged to inscribe a curve representing the rate of consumption on a cylinder. If an auto horn is blown it is found that the blast "eliminates the cat's desire to eat," and a disturbance is consequently recorded in the hyperbole. Bausfield revealed that the hyperboles are of the catenary variety...