Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country has greater troubles than this wild goose chase to which Congress should address itself. ... I don't want anything like this to distract the minds of the people from the great and fundamental economic conditions they are faced with now. We have large surpluses to eat and wear, yet unemployment is rife. Instead of going off witch hunting, why not create a committee to study why, in the midst of plenty, we are in the midst of want? . . . An economic system that permits that has something wrong with it. ... It isn't the preaching of radicals that creates unrest...
...genteel price of one guinea ($5.10) per egg. "Plover" in restaurant parlance is a handy name for almost any "wader," vaguely similar to a snipe or sandpiper. The species most common in England (and the U. S.) is the ringed plover, "Billdeer." Crocodiles like plovers, not to eat but because the birds pick leeches and other parasites from saurian mouths. Also a sleepy crocodile knows that with a few plovers about it is safe to doze off because, should an enemy approach, the cries of the plovers will wake him up. Egyptian folklore teems with improving tales about the close...
...college, in courses which are necessarily elementary and non-cultural, and generally boring. As long as preparatory schools fail to cover the ground of elementary lingual preparation, and as long as the College retains its demand for "reading knowledge" of this sort, elementary language courses will continue to eat into student time. Alteration in the two conditions must go hand in hand, but the College has the power to take the first step by making its entrance language requirements rigid, and by changing the emphasis in College requirements from linguistic to literary...
Locusts are good to eat. St. Matthew says of John the Baptist: "His meat was locusts and wild honey." Shakespeare in Othello refers ecstatically to food "as luscious as locusts." Last week in the French and Spanish colonies in Africa, where the locust swarms were a nuisance but not a plague, hungry natives ate their fill, played games with the hoppers, bet on their hops. Tourists from the U. S. on Mediterranean cruises took a different view, grew vexed and grumpy as the hoppers hopped into their berths, baths, soups. In Greece and Rumania the sudden arrival of the locusts...
...provided he wrote his own book. Even if he did not, he is a skilful collaborator. Once a hobo, he says: "I came to New York just to see the sights ... my money ran low. . . . Hack driving seemed to be a very handy way to see New York and eat at the same time." Still at the taxi wheel, he is now about...