Word: eating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merger with Farmers' Loan and Trust (TIME, April 8) and the all-but-ratified merger with Corn Exchange Bank (TIME, Sept. 30) the Bank reiterated its position as greatest U. S. bank, became greatest world bank. Now Mr. Mitchell, who used to say that he was too poor to eat at Child's, instead, for reputation's sake, fed at expensive hotels, could (but did not) eat at lunch wagons or hot dog stands. Definitely, finally, he had arrived...
Quail Stuffers. To fatten quail for market, Italian and Polish gaveurs (bird stuffers) work in Paris market-hall cellars, chewing up grain and fruit into a pap which they let the quail eat from their mouths. The pecking quail abrade the gaveurs' lips, noses, chins. The peckmarks become infected, ulcerated; the gaveurs are miserable, sometimes die. ... So reported the Journal of the American Medical Association, ever on the alert for new occupational diseases...
...Convened without the usual formality of a Speech from the Throne because: 1) The King, who reads the Speech, was still convalescent at Sandringham, though well enough to shoot pheasants, eat pheasant morsels. 2) The Prime Minister, who writes the Speech from the Throne, was on high and rough seas...
...Legends that the mongoose crossbreeds with rats, that it can hypnotize a snake with its glassy stare (or vice versa), are groundless. But because mongooses eat rats, mice and large insects, in addition to snakes and birds and their eggs, they have been found useful. Indian natives keep them as protective house pets...
...passed a bad night. I don't feel well, but I try to work. Things don't go well. ... I just slept a little here in my chair, but I am weak and they won't let me eat...