Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not let him have its spending) and the New Deal's retaliatory income tax evasion suits against the Longster tribe. By last week all that was changed. The President and his son were whisked away to Antoine's, famed old restaurant in the Vieux Carre, to eat Proprietor Roy Alciatore's specialties: oysters Rockefeller and Pompano en papillate. Only a small company were present, for too many Longsters might have spoiled Louisiana's new era political soup...
...last week wound up its season by presenting an extraordinary collection of Prehistoric Rock Pictures. Director Alfred Barr Jr. saw no paradox. He recalled that many cave decorations were magic symbols to help the painter with his hunting, and thus "today walls are painted so that the artist may eat," whereas "in prehistoric times walls were painted so that the community might eat." Nevertheless, said he: "The formal elegance of the Altamira bison; the grandeur of outline in the Norwegian rock engravings of bear, elk and whale; the cornucopian fecundity of Rhodesian animal landscapes; the kinetic fury of the East...
Perhaps the only way out is for the liberals to get hold of Lewis Carroll's recipes. A judicious diet of the contents of the little bottle marked "Drink Me", which shuts things up "like a telescope"; then an occasional bite of the cake marked "Eat Me", which opens things out "like the largest telescope that ever was", seems to be just what the President's disciples have been looking...
...Chicago's Palmer House one night last week some 1,300 people, including Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly, the British Consul General, Rabbi Louis Leopold Mann and numerous ministers, paid $2 apiece to eat fruit, asparagus soup, chicken, Salade Peoples Church, Frozen Cake 25th Jubilee. The jubilee was that of the world's largest Unitarian church (2,500 members), founded with 67 members in 1912 by a rotund, swarthy little man who today is Chicago's most popular Protestant pastor...
...with purple cellophane to simulate twilight. In the greenhouse basement is the Japanese beetle division. This handsome insect, whose U. S. infestation is spreading from a focus in New Jersey, is prone to go on hunger-strikes in captivity, avoid the sprayed plants which the researchers want them to eat. The strike is broken by shining a powerful light in their cages, which attracts them upward from the floor. They cannot cling to the glass walls and tops of the cages, so are forced to settle on the plants. Once there they give up and start eating...