Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind's eye," he cried, "is that magnificent painting of the scene in which the sovereign lies dying and his servant exclaims, 'Never again will I serve a King whom the worms can eat...
...were fined $10 each; not because the contesting birds were automatically condemned to death in accordance with a proviso in the state law. They claimed that it was useless and cruel to kill the gamecocks by placing them in chambers filled with carbon monoxide gas, making them unfit to eat; that since gamecocks are carefully fed, housed and usually young, it would be kinder to wring their necks and donate the carcasses to the poor...
...students, it is impossible to dismiss this irreverent criticism as of little importance. It deserves analysis and the serious consideration of the authorities. One finds that it is based on the belief that the fraternities will suffer, that men of uncongenial temperament and tastes will be forced to eat and live together under the admonitory eyes of resident members of the faculty; in short, that the new dispensation will destroy the freedom as well as the landmarks of the old social system and substitute therefore something stereotyped and stale on an English model unfitted for the American scene...
...predicament of the condemned-of men waiting for the electric chair. The first act is an agonizing crescendo leading to an execution. The murderer is given a lavish meal which he cannot eat, cigarets which he is unable to finish. His temples are shaved for one electrical contact ; his trousers are slit for another. The sacrament is administered. He passes each of the other six cells in the Death House on his way to a green door. The other six of the doomed wait in silence until the lights go dim, indicating that the prison dynamo is working...
...President planned to eat and sleep on the Saunterer, to spend his days fishing for sailfish, kingfish, barracuda, perhaps tarpon, from small speedboats. His only contact with the shore would be a courier in a launch. Newsmen, left behind as they always are when the President plays, settled down at Long Key to amuse themselves the best they could, to welcome whatever scraps of information were daily brought in by the courier from the Saunterer...