Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simple Bookmark, in which the operator by lifting his reading glasses releases a flock of moths who eat a woolen sock which drops a tear-gas bomb which causes a small dog to weep into a sponge whose added weight puts into operation a magic lantern which casts on the book's cover the likeness of a man who has stolen the wife of an angry dwarf who plunges a dagger through the picture and into the book, stopping when he strikes a pet flea who jumped between the pages to sleep when the book was laid down...
Said Socialist Nominee Norman Thomas who happened to be in Philadelphia next day: "It seems incredible that 1,300 people would pay $100 for a $2.50 dinner to listen to Jim Farley and watch him eat. I paid 2? for a newspaper this morning and saw a picture of Farley eating -that was enough...
...been appointed by the Student Council to assist Francis Keppel '38 in his duties as Student Council Member in charge of Freshman affairs. Hedblom holds the position Keppel held last year and will help him in advising the Union Committee, running the Class elections, arranging the Smoker, and will eat once a week at the Union to keep generally in touch with any Yardling problems that may come...
...Pilar, with a cargo desperately desired by its inhabitants. The rats, reported the master of a British freighter which put in at lonely Tristan da Cunha last August, had got completely out of control of the island's single mongoose, were devouring all crops, even beginning to eat the Bibles of which Tristanites own five to a family. Last week the Cap Pilar was gallantly sailing to the rescue with twelve alley cats...
...Gifford Pinchot, an attractive, honey-haired socialite who helped found the Academy of American Poets, which gives balls and raises money for fancy fellowships for U. S. poets. Explained Mrs. Bullock on one occasion: "Poetry has been on the decline in America principally, I believe, because poets must eat like the rest of us, and there has been no live or ready market for their wares...