Word: eating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slayer's Boast. Prince Felix Youssoupov has written autobiographically that he offered Rasputin poisoned wine, after first pretending to take a sip himself. When the Debauchee's potent digestion resisted liquid poison, Rasputin was induced to eat several pastries containing cyanide of potassium. Expectantly the nobles waited for their victim to collapse, and blanched with fear as the Black Monk, who was believed to possess occult powers, became merely hilarious after absorbing enough poison to kill a healthy elephant...
...Elder, famed aviatrix, the following was syndicated last week in U. S. newspapers-part of a description of a White House luncheon: "The event was jolly. I noticed President Coolidge ate very little and I won one of his rare smiles when I said: 'Why, Mr. President, you eat just like a canary...
...Appropriately, the department noted the prevalence of beavers in the West. Beavers, like Beavermen, are natural engineers. Unlike Beavermen, they eat water lilies, taste like pork, have trowel-like, scaly tails...
...Hours since had the kitchens been scoured, the house put in order for the summer. She faced the President, spoke the truth: "We have nothing in the ice box, sir." A moment's hesitation, and the President was master of the situation. Said he: "Very well, we will eat out." They lunched at the Pan American Union building...
...their vitality, theirs was an automatic existence. Octavia's frivolous hostess damns them as staunch Tories who nevertheless know nothing and care nothing about politics: "No one down here reads or writes. They eat, sleep, buy and sell horses, walk to the stables and back, tap the thermometer, fuss over their top boots, put ammonia in their baths; and such powers as they've got of conversation are exercised upon their stud grooms...