Word: eater
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conservative attacks on the bill were led by famed Winston ("Winnie") Churchill, whilom Chancellor of the Exchequer, who enjoyed a piece of Scot MacDonald's birthday cake in New York last fall (TIME, Oct. 21). Last week Cake-giver MacDonald lashed out at Cake-eater Churchill: "You are making politics of this [coal bill] and nothing else. All your wit and polished phrases are for the sole purpose of forcing us to go to the country for another election. If you do we will beat...
...brows and tearing teeth, slouched one half million years ago, into a limestone cave 30 miles from what is now Peiping (Peking), China. He died. Another one lumbered in and naturally ate the corpse, probably with some shrubbery for condiment. The dead head presumably was especially tasty, for the eater, it now seems, tore it from the body, gnawed it and threw it away to disintegrate. The second comer died; a third, a fourth, a succession of ten. The last decayed with his head in place...
...great diplomatic ancestor tickled the fancies of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary; the Old Soak exudes a tale of spiritual wickedness and liquor in high places; the powerful Katinka in a circus has a heart of gold but a terrible temper when annoyed. Ultimately the old story about the glass-eater is put in print. It is a poor finale, for this hoary anecdote belongs with the one about the man with the beard, and Chic Sale's The Specialist. No bedtime story, it finds itself uncomfortable between these stiff white sheets...
Town Boy tells of country girl who took her city sweetheart back to the barnyards, where he seemed pale indeed. When a bucolic beef eater smashed him on the chin, she realized however that she still loved him. Critic Robert Littell of the New York World: "I can think of no good reason for its existence." Critic Gilbert W. Gabriel of the New York American: "It has a certain pleading innocence about the badness of its writing." The New York Times: ". . . definitely a minor occurrence in the theatre...
...issue of TIME for Aug. 5, it is stated in the review of The Eater of Darkness that Dadaism was "born at the Cabaret Voltaire, Paris, 1916." This would give rise to the erroneous impression that Dada was a movement of French origin...