Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not eat a pound of cooked human flesh for $750,000 [TIME, May 13]? Tell these scientists, or whoever it is, they need not look further, as I will do it, providing it is the flesh of a man, white preferred. I would also like to designate the hour of the meal be evening, place, a ringside table where a good lively show is on, or the Pennsylvanians doing their best. I would also like to have the privilege of planning the rest of the menu to cat with...
...When it was founded most bankers hesitated to accept women's accounts because bank lobbies were usually crowded with male customers "among whom it is not agreeable for a lady to penetrate." Fifth Avenue Bank thought differently. It built a handsome parlor where ladies could "cut coupons and eat bonbons with equal relish." Off the parlor was a room furnished with manicuring scissors, hairpins, violet water, lavender salts, scented soap. In the coupon rooms the directors thoughtfully provided threaded needles. Black-bonneted dowagers drove their carriages up to the bank by the hundreds to enter their names...
...prove the power of mind over matter, and equally anxious--in the interests of science, of course--to disprove the learned Columbia professor's theory that one would refuse to eat a worm for a thousand dollars Dudley N. Hartt, Jr. '37 gave a demonstration in the Dunster House Dining Hall yesterday evening which showed conclusively that given a certain amount of stimulation one can eat even more gastrically fatal things than a nice fresh worm. Before a roomful of awed waitresses and a horrified steward, who took the act to be a personal insult, the talented Sophomore casually emptied...
...Negro takes to the woods the landlord rounds up a posse. At dawn, directed by the sharecropper, they find their quarry, shoot him down from a tree. The sharecropper, his stomach full of two horrible deaths in one night, goes home to breakfast, but for once he cannot eat...
Said Relief Pitcher Sylvester Johnson of Philadelphia: "I missed my usual steak dinner. I know I can get it after the game but who wants to eat a big steak and then...