Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other survivor, Katherine Schaub of Newark, reacted to her death sentence as did the men of Jerusalem who, when their city was in danger about 712 B. C., made merry, slew oxen, killed sheep, ate flesh, drank wine, shouted: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die!" (Isaiah 22: 10-13.) Miss Schaub took her $10,000 cash and bought two motor cars. She amused herself at mountain resorts and hotels. She wrote a book, Gambling With Radium, and when her publishers advised her to improve its literary style, she enrolled as a correspondence pupil at Columbia University...
...eat. drink, sing and swagger on the 24th anniversary of the First Battle of Bull Run through which they all had fought. 34 Civil War Veterans of Company B, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, met at an inn at Stillwater. Minn, in 1885. There they organized the Last Man Club, pledged to assemble annually until only one member survived. Into a rosewood box they put a bottle of Burgundy with which the Last Man was to toast his dead comrades...
Unlike his mother, his wife, the one-time secretary whom he married when he was 50, disapproved of his life. Especially was she provoked when he entertained his hobo wards in their parlor, cooked them mulligan which he, a vegetarian, would not eat, in the fireplace. She left him two years ago. got her final divorce decree only a fortnight ago, now lives in Los Angeles, hopeless of getting a dower share in his inheritance...
...practical glance of Congressman Bertrand ("Bert") Snell the House of Commons must have teemed with curious contrasts. In his own semicircular House of Representatives, for example, males and females sit hatless as in a theatre, facing the "well" beyond which rises Speaker Nicholas Longworth's rostrum. They may not eat, drink or smoke, but may address the House in Spanish?language of the Philippines...
...Cambridge, Mass, a crowd gathered to watch a man who, while washing windows on the ninth floor, was dancing a jig. Arrested for being a nuisance, the window washer, one James O'Reilly, asserted that he could also eat razor blades or glass, chewed and swallowed an electric light bulb to prove...