Word: eater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brandishing a mop in an axe-like manner, a five-eater was swabbing the third story windows. An assistant directed the hose on the panes at the same time; so dirt didn't have much chance of staying on the outside...
When J. (for James) Rion McKissick graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1905, he was voted not only the biggest eater and best writer but the most accomplished orator in his class. Last week South Carolina's Governor Olin D. Johnston and a deputation of State officials gathered in the University's field house to inaugurate Alumnus McKissick, who had worked up from the editorship of the Greenville Piedmont through the deanship of the University's school of journalism, as the University's 19th president. Big, baldish Orator McKissick lived up to his undergraduate...
...undergraduate, attempting to peer into the flaming closet, was ejected by a captain with the following words: "You've get more nerve than I've get, brother, and I'm an officer!" The same local fire eater carried the first piece of burning wood out into the street, and was greeted by lend applause from the assembled crowd...
Formed in Manhattan last week was a National Committee "to Lift the Onion Eater from the Category of Social Lepers." The Committee's plans were tentative. Said Secretary A. W. Lockwood: "Some want to educate the public to enjoy and preserve the aroma of onion, which they feel is as pleasing as that of a rose, if you look at it right. Others favor an attempt to popularize the scientists' findings and show the public how to eliminate onion breath.* A few hold that the onion has been slandered and that what you think is onion breath...
...Fleet? Whatever the idea, I think what you have said in the quotation above, even if it were true, and it is not true, is in extremely bad taste. A gourmet he may be, and that is no discredit; a gourmand, by which you mean a greedy eater, a glutton, he could never be. I messed with him many months and I know. If he likes fine wines, caviar-whose business is it but his own? Does that make him less fitted to be Commander-in-Chief? . . . H. A. WILEY Rear Admiral (retired) Chairman Adjustment Board Navy Administration Building Camden...