Word: eater
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hyde's only practical knowledge of farming has come through his personal management of four farms, totaling 710 acres, belonging to his wife. To many a Missouri farmer his name is still anathema because as Governor he put through a road program which earned him the epithet of "tax-eater...
...EATER OF DARKNESS-Robert M. Coates-Macaulay ($2.50). "To My Father and Mother, Nick Carter . . . ex-Mayor Hylan, Gertrude Stein . . . Oleg Skrypitzine . . . Gerald Chapman, Harold Loeb, The New York Times . . . and Fantomas this book is affectionately or gratefully dedicated." Author Coates lives in Manhattan's Chelsea at the end of a disconnected telephone-wire, and it is in Chelsea that his story begins. There one Charles Dograr, "a rare and sensitive soul" meets "one night at 5 a. m." a remarkably white-browed, long-handed old gentleman clad in a pair of long green silk stockings. Old Picrolas reveals...
...seems there were a variety of names-Daphne, Circe, Calypso, Nausicaa-but all had the one purpose of beloving Odysseus, bearing his children, and getting rid of him when he grew boring. Daphne, lotus-eater, was perhaps the most charming-that is, until she referred casually to the custom of her country that would require Odysseus' death as soon as she was with child by him. Before he could complete, however, his mission as chosen father, he escaped to the next island and succumbed to the charms of Circe (he later described her to Penelope as "a witch, rather...
...BILL OF FARE Freedom of Choice MEATS For the Meat Eater FRUITS CEREALS FRESH VEGETABLES DAIRY PRODUCTS For Health and Economy...
...Dawes boom, and various other major and minor booms before the delegates assemble--how far short of a majority any single candidate remains, how available the engineers of the convention consider a candidate from the Middle West, strong in the Senate, popular with the farmers and yet no fire eater...