Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turkey sandwiches (white meat) to be delivered within six hours to Welfare Island's hospital prison, as well as a standing weekly order of 350 shrimp salads and 600 coleslaw salads. Delicatesseners Wolf and Wolitsky, their suspicions aroused on the ground that "sick people don't eat coleslaw," investigated, discovered that Miss Hanson had no connection with Welfare Island and no money, had her arrested for disorderly conduct...
Page & Shaw. So inordinately fond of sweets was the late teetotaling James Buchanan ("Diamond Jim") Brady that he was known to eat a pound of candy in five minutes. One day he was given a box of chocolates made by a small Boston confectionery named Page & Shaw. "It's the best goddam candy I ever put in my mouth!" cried "Diamond Jim," who vowed he would thereafter buy no candy but Page & Shaw's. Later, according to his biographers, he offered the struggling little candy company $150,000 without interest...
...beaten. Last fortnight the silver-haired ex-diplomat, Henry Prather Fletcher, who has been far from a diplomatic success as Republican National Chairman, marched to the microphone, as he has not done in months, and cried over the air: "It has been wisecracked that you cannot eat the Constitution. You can't, nor can you eat the Bible, or the Golden Rule, or the Ten Commandments, or the deed to your property, or your life insurance policy...
...close that, as he objected profanely, "people come walking in and out and prodding me with sticks every minute of the day and night." Irritable, anxious to sleep, half stupefied with drink, he objected to being weighed and given a shower, objected more vehemently to being made to eat...
Sclafani went on: "The female yak is a delightful animal. She waits until the male gets through eating before she will touch food. The expression in her eyes while she watches the male eat is beautiful. . . . All the animals know me and talk to me in their own languages asking for food. They feed these animals hay and grain and meat when what they need and crave is fresh vegetables. Think of all the castor oil they've had to give the elephants because they let them have peanuts and candy and stuff like that. The poor animals are mistreated...