Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference Hall of the Diocesan Clergy at Bradford in the North of England: The obese, cheery Bishop of Bradford who likes to eat with his servants, play golf and work crossword puzzles, castigates King Edward in words applicable either to His Majesty's keeping company with Mrs. Simpson or to the Sovereign's skimpy attendance at Church. "In his public capacity at his Coronation he stands for the English people's idea of Kingship!" booms the Bishop. "[The King] needs the grace of God. . . . We hope he is aware of his need! Some of us wish...
Reason was that Alaska's lush but extremely short growing season made its vegetables bloated, watery. Matanuska vegetables, said Senator Thomas, "taste like icicles." Potatoes must be dried in a slow oven before they can be stored even briefly. Alaskans, he declared, generally refuse to eat their native produce...
...their shape. A woman wanted "a picture of all animals in the animal kingdom from protozone [sic] to mammal as soon as possible." For a moth-proofing company Ward's made up salesmen's display kit's showing the growth stages of moths and how they eat fabric. The research laboratories of General Electric and Westinghouse buy rare minerals. Amateur lapidaries order rough masses of aquamarine, rose quartz, agate...
...Poduyevo, jobless Milovan Savovich, 30, who recently ate two Belgrade newspapers on a 20? bet, spied a dead, unskinned hare, wagered its peasant owner 60? he could eat all but the bones. He won. Asked what he ate for dessert, Savovich quickly snatched a fez from an astonished Moslem onlooker, swallowed it in pieces. Boasted he: "This is nothing. For 100 dinars ($2) I can eat a whole sheep skin...
...dinner Mr. Johnson eat several platefuls of Scotch broth with pease in them and was very fond of the dish. I said, 'You never eat it before, sir.' 'No, sir, but I don't care how soon I eat it again...