Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money on the undeserving, and the waste that goes on of materials in government kitchens, etc., the excessive personnel, I wonder how it can be. It is astonishing. The mess hall is accessible to outsiders, little or no check-up being made on those who come in to eat. . . . This looks like disloyalty to those who have acted in my interest instead of the taxpayers. But I have no sense of loyalty to persons. There is an outside loudspeaker in the home grounds. (We get free entertainment, too: radio, theatre, movies.) Each Friday when the "March of Time" comes...
Next morning rolling kitchens rolled out from Ft. Myer. The U. S. Army was host at a breakfast of apples, coffee, doughnuts?all they could eat. And after washing at filling stations and under fire hydrants, the marchers were gently gotten in line by a few policemen. Patrolling up and down the ranks, a loudspeaker on the roof of a car gave the orders: "Attention! Fall in line, men; eight abreast and ready to move. Act like gentlemen!" Waving soiled little U. S. flags, led by Father Cox and one E. R. Franc of Pittsburgh dressed as "Uncle...
...keep the wolf from the door with medals. ... I have to eat and that's why I'm doing this. And you can take it from me, I've got this marathon dance thing sewed up. I passed through the squirrel stage, when you get hopeless and exhausted long ago. ... I could go out and break 4:25 for the mile right now. . . . That $1,000 prize is as good as in my pocket right now. . . . This thing...
Last week the American Weekly retold as current news the fascinating story of Charles Lange of Port Townsend, Wash., a whimsical businessman who, having raised a school of salmon trout from the egg, keeps them in a pool beneath his office window, trains them to rise at his call, eat from his hand, even jump from the water through a hoop...
...good but the hippocampus major is O. K. The hallux is fair." "The family life of the Baboon is known as hell on earth. The males grow meaner and stingier and the females fade at an early age. The children scream, stamp, roll on the ground and will not eat their Centipedes." "The average Penguin has the mind of an eight-year-old child but he gets his pic ture in the Sunday papers...