Word: eating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fill every office, State and Federal, with members of the society, and to put none but Alpha Delts in command, either in the army or the navy, and they can then seize the supreme power, and compel every man, woman and child to drink lemonade, eat oysters and wear outlandish breast-pins...
...detected as well? Or, if that is impracticable, why cannot a system of checking be introduced, such as the library authorities, ever mindful of the convenience of the students, have long practised? The cost could be but little and the additional peace of mind with which we should eat our humble fare would amply repay us for the slight expense...
Teacher - "John, what are your boots made of?" Boy - "Of leather, sir." Teacher - "Where does the leather come from?" Boy - "From the hide of the ox." Teacher - "What animal, therefore, supplies you with boots and shoes, and gives you meat to eat?" Boy - "My father." - [N. Y. Tribune...
...accident happens often to the best house-keepers. From the fuss that the writer makes over it, one would think that instead of the evil's being discovered in time by the very persons whose business it was to discover it, the unfortunate writer had been forced to eat the whole of said meat...
...nature of a violent personal attack upon the steward. Whatever may be said of Mr. Balch in his capacity as steward, he is, so far as we know, a perfectly honorable man, and therefore incapable of wittingly serving to boarders at Memorial meat which was tainted or unfit to eat. If the contrary is true, and can be proved by our contemporary, we will admit ourselves to be mistaken, and commend the article in question as timely and just. Until this is done, however, we will give Mr. Balch the benefit of the doubt, and assume that, if tainted meat...