Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made his body servant drink three bottles of champagne in quick succession and cackled: "You are drinking for my pleasure, not yours.'' He made the same servant drink a mixture of Worcestershire sauce, pepper, sherry, port & brandy; made him crawl on the floor like a dog, bark, eat out of a saucer...
...rainbow trout caught by Publisher Fred G. Bonfils of the Denver Post and glorified in that exaggerating sheet, was a tame trout named Elmer "known to hundreds of visitors to the Miller preserve, from whom he would accept remnants of lunch, coming half out of the water to eat out of their hands. A friendly and sociable trout was Elmer and he did tricks for the tourists including a watery rendition of 'Sweet Adeline' when his crumbs were soaked in the drippings of the picnic flask...
...Syndicalists, bane of the young republic, were out on a general strike. No milk was delivered, no garbage collected. Electric light and gas lines were cut. No trolleys ran. Violence started when Civil Governor Anguero visited the jail to plead with 51 hunger-striking Syndicalists to eat. The prisoners, who in some way had obtained guns, replied by firing a few wild shots, collecting all the furniture in the jail and making a bonfire of it. Riot squads rushed in to quiet them...
...worth of school buildings in 20 years, James O. Betelle's advice to young architects may carry some weight. "I only know," says he, "when I was a lad about 17, getting $2 a week, I worked day and night. Many a time I longed to eat ice cream and bought milk instead, be cause I was saving my nickels and dimes. "If these youths . . . adapted themselves to their work, honestly did their part and a little bit more, paying less attention to the office clock, I am certain their employers would take notice of them. . . . One cannot play...
Members may not order dinner for any hour they choose or eat what they wish. The Squadron is run like a private house. If a member wishes to dine he must warn the steward before noon. Dinner is served at 8:30 at an enormous round table at which the senior officer present (who has already chosen what the members are to eat) is host. No checks are ever signed. Members are tactfully billed at the end of the month for what they have consumed...