Word: eating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sickly young shoemaker of Odense, in Fünen, Denmark, married when he was 20 a woman still younger than himself and was very well content when she bore him a son. They called the baby Hans Christian, and all three lived together, with little to eat, in a room which was also the home of their fine black...
...this hideous creature." One day, a few minutes late with the boa constrictor's supper, the keeper hurried into his cage to find him stretched on the floor, in the shape of a great stiff zero with one end of him inside the other. He had tried to eat his tail; his teeth had become caught on his scales; he had choked, writhed, and so-devoured by self-worship-choked to death...
...Jerry's you've heard so Much about. B. & M.? Oh, that's Boston and Maine. What does it Mean? Oh, it's a sort of Sandwich with a little Jelly and Peanut Butter and Cheese and Honey and a Fried Egg on it. Do with it? Why they Eat it of course. No, they're Not crazy; they're just Harvard men, who like to be Different as Well as Indifferent...
...Chicago, one Campbell McCarthy, waited in a death-house to be hanged for murder. He had only one meal left to eat on earth, and that he knew would be a good one-chicken. Suddenly the jailer came to his cell and told him his execution had been stayed. Mr. McCarthy's face brightened, then fell. Said he: "Captain, lemme ask you one favor. Lemme stay in here tonight, Boss, and eat ma meal. Lemme eat that chicken just like I was going...
Bull-elephants show selfesteem, Demand much coaxing ere they eat...