Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scalding, and just at the right time and place. I started reading you in Rome where I have had a residence for the past 25 years, and have kept up the good work until now. Let me add that I send every number to friends back there, who eat them alive...
Over the Hill (Fox) is old-fashioned cinema, dealing sadly with filial ingratitude and the poorhouse. Its story is simple, straight from the old hokum bucket: Ma Shelby (Mae Marsh) rears her children in a sacrificial way, tenderly requiring them to wash behind the ears and eat their porridge. When they mature, it is found that her ministrations have spoiled them, or else that they have inherited unhappy characteristics from their father, a bootlegger but a bad provider. One of the sons becomes a pompous hack-painter, married to a sleek and dressy strumpet. Another is an enfeebled hypocrite, whining...
Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen, former chairman of Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. sentenced to jail for a year for sponsoring a misleading stock prospectus (TIME, Nov. 16), refused to eat or take exercise, was placed in an observation cell...
...trencherman he was Gargantuan. In 1887 (when U. S. Senators were still elected by State legislatures) Penrose supervised a 48-hour party for doubtful legislators at the Lochiel Hotel, Harrisburg. ''In addition to other entertainment, the guests were provided with all the food they could eat, all the liquor they could drink, beds, valets, and music. And inasmuch as at no time were all the guests incapacitated or otherwise absent, Penrose never left the ball room, the center of the merry-making." Typical Penrose meal: "A dozen raw oysters, chicken gumbo, a terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed...
There are times when a member of one House wishes to eat with a friend in another House. Under the present regulation of the Harvard dining halls a man is constrained other to forego his pleasure or to consider himself an uninvited guest and suffer the embarrassment of knowing that he is causing his host a not inconsiderable expense. Conversely, the extra charges involved in entertaining guests often prevent a House resident from inviting friends to dine with...