Word: eater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plainfield, N. J., on behalf of a jungle epic called Man Eater of Kumaon, ushers took turns stuffing themselves into a tiger skin to do some pacing and growling in the lobby...
Long-Legged Fish. Behind this round-robin anthropophagy, Dr. Wolff detects the outlines of a weird and dreadful religion. According to ancient legends, death and the fear of death ruled Easter Island. It was good to eat people, for into the eater then flowed the life of a "long-legged fish." Human sacrifices, piously (and frequently) performed on the tops of volcanoes, gave new life...
...dogs developed fits. Experimenters sometimes found the brain cells of Agenized dogs shrunken, misshapen or missing. A similar diet had no bad effects on 20 human guinea pigs. Nonetheless, Dr. Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists, announced last winter (TIME, Jan. 12) that Agene may make the eater nervous...
...appeared in Georgia-grasshopper-eating.* Across the state, college students and other daredevils gulped them down alive for $1.50 to $20 a hopper. Said one girl: "It tickled slightly when it went down and was sort of scratchy." Said a male eater: "Something like live grass...
Noting that "Dr. Lee de Forest, one of radio's pioneers, has described the new eater of evenings as a 'Benign Frankenstein,' " the FORUM wonders if there are not "many who would question his use of the word benign." Is there any basis for optimism? "The U.S., essentially unchanged by such other modern advances as the supersonic airplane and the super-septic tank, may survive television. A remote possibility...