Word: eater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rice Institute, Houston, Tex. Dr. Chandler seldom counts calories, is never finicky. He claims that the flesh of rattlesnakes is "delicious and nutritious," that "grasshoppers, caterpillars and termites . . . afford wholesome food if there is no acquired aversion." Besides these odd chips of information, Dr. Chandler's book (The Eater's Digest, Farrar & Rinehart; $2.75) is packed with practical discussions on such things as digestion, nutritional diseases, bellyaches, diet during pregnancy, ravenous children, vitamins (if you don't like spinach, don't eat it, but be sure to buy your vitamins in the drugstore...
...result was "a great cleanness and decency . . . one of the most pleasant things that ever grew up on American soil." But under the political and moral pressure of the Yankee this sense of honor became incandescent and ran wild. The passion for rhetoric came to a boil; the Fire-Eater went to Washington (and has never left it); Jehovah became a tribal God and the South His last great bulwark; the Civil War was Armageddon...
...eater-Did you ever have ham that...
Designed to eater to the tastes of those who were appalled by the exorbitant House football dances, the Winthrop post-season dance will take place on Saturday. Admission will be $1.00 a couple with the same price prevailing for stray stags...
...Cambridge Fire Station doorways--seen from a distance. At close range though, the figures turn out to be the driver of a fire engine with two mates grimly holding on behind. And this Janus-like duality in the stone heroes' appearance can also be found in a real smoke-eater's life...