Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lichine keeps a daily log for the company, mourns when there is no scandal, no petty jealousy to record. In their few hours of leisure the dancers rush for a cinema, a 5 & 10? store, a cut-rate druggist to buy their cosmetics. During rehearsals they subsist on milk, eat ravenously when a performance is over. Aboard train they will buy anything from ham sandwiches and chocolate to Coca-Cola "widout...
...Tussaud's. "In the Chamber of Horrors we saw bloody figures and figures of ladies and gentlemen who .had killed people, and Mamma said, 'Crime doesn't pay.' " On the boat, "Mamma came down to breakfast with us the first two days. She made us eat oatmeal. But then she didn't come down to breakfast any more, so we had pickles and wurst for breakfast. They didn't have any ice-cream for breakfast, but they gave it to us for lunch and dinner." Accustomed as they were to Continental cities, they were...
...factory, appropriately called "The Mense Trap" was a complete prison for the men employed. Anyone who was allowed to enter remained for the duration of the war. When the factory was first opened, there was no kitchen and the entire staff was marched to eat at a hotel commandeered by the government and then marched back again...
...same admission averages, and that the percentage of failures were fewer. It is a well known fact that men who have a steady job or outside activity, such as managerial work, literary competitions, or even national youth movements, do much better on the average than those who merely eat and sleep their way through Harvard...
Ireland. By 2000 B. C. the uncouth men who lived along the River Bann, in what is now County Londonderry, had learned to catch fish in such quantities that they and their families could not eat them all at once. Accordingly they set up what must have been an extremely malodorous fish-drying centre. This was excavated last season by a Harvard group under Hallam Leonard Movius Jr. About this time the Irish were learning from contact with the Mediterranean civilizations to build huge mausoleums. In County Sligo another Harvard party under Hugh O'Neill Hencken unearthed a mound...