Word: eat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gilded lily, appears in the film, bearing that name, which indicates from the start how one is going to have a good time and is therefore doubly successful. Ungilded, she is a shopgirl who meets a steamship reporter every Thursday evening on a bench in the park. They eat popcorn and take off their shoes...
Pitcairn Islanders are Seventh Day Adventists and only a few backsliders eat meat. Every family head owns his own plot of ground, contributes a tithe of his produce to the community and seven days' labor a year to public works. Equal suffrage was instituted long before any European nation had it. School attendance is compulsory. Each family has a brand with which it marks all its possessions, animate and inanimate. The local government consists of a council of seven headed by a magistrate. There is no such thing as money, and only occasional mail from the outside world...
...someone to step into General Johnson's shoes, Clay Williams was the answer. He came at 95? a year ($1 after April i) and began getting down to NRA headquarters at 7:30 in the morning. He still does. At breakfast, lunch and dinner, he goes out to eat with businessmen who have kicks against NRA-it is against his rules to be interrupted by callers or telephones during office hours. Otherwise he is not seen around Washington. So far as he is concerned he is simply there for a job, to clean up the administrative mess...
...could tootle on a horn and play passably on the violin and 'cello. Father Brahms wanted his son to concentrate on dance tunes, for he often took him to play in the red-light district where they could earn a few thalers and all the supper they could eat. It was to Father Brahms' despair that the boy kept scribbling notes...
Stanford is completing a transcontinental tour which has included debates with Syracuse, McGill, and Dartmouth. Members of both teams will eat supper together in the Union before the debate...