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Word: eater (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both the fish eater and the Boston newspaper correspondent, who helped sponsor the affair, are rival candidates for a House office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 23 FINNY DENIZENS SUCCUMB TO RAVENOUS HARVARD EATER | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...ever want $10 that bad again just let us know an we'll send it to keep you from becoming constipated," wrote one of Lothrop (goldfish-eater) Withington's more ardent correspondents yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WITHINGTON'S DIGESTION IS WORTH $10 TO KANSAS GIRL | 3/10/1939 | See Source »

...when he was 66, Masuda retired and became elder statesman to the House of Mitsui. Five years later he was named Baron Masuda. He took to collecting paintings, sculpture and pottery, devoted himself to the cult of chanoyu (Japanese tea ceremony). A heavy eater and drinker in his younger days, he developed stomach trouble, had to watch his diet. He kept a cow and whatever his cow ate Masuda would eat, including grass. When a neighbor recommended globefish as a particular delicacy, he offered some to his cow (who loved eels and herring). The cow refused and so did Masuda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Great Imperialist | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...testing of the Lafayette Square Fire Department's new hook and ladder, complete with 100-feet water tower. The boys from Lafayette gleefully sprayed the home of the boys from Koscluske with two towering torrents of water. "This is the only time we ever have fun," exulted one smoke-eater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Firemen Gather to Witness Wonder of $18,000 Apparatus | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

...performing Zunguru by an African playwright-composer, Asadata Dafora Horton, whose Kykunkor got rave notices from Broadway critics in 1934. Primitive in plot, Zunguru was a kind of savage vaudeville, with three blacks pounding African drums, brown girls strutting their stuff, a witch doctor gabbling and shrieking, a fire-eater munching lighted torches-all of it "background" for Boy Meets Girl in Senegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Free for All | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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