Word: eating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JUNE 7). ANYONE OUGHT TO KNOW THE REAL ARGUMENT LIES IN WHETHER IT IS AN EUPHEMISTIC CONTRACTION OF "DILAPIDATED" OR SPRINGS DIRECTLY FROM "GALLOP," MEANING TO MOVE BY SPRINGING LEAPS. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AZTEC PURGATIVE ROOTS AND SUGGEST PUNISHING ED FOR SUCH TRIPE BY MAKING HIM EAT HIS WORDS SEASONED WITH SOME JALAP AND A WELL TURNED JALOPY...
...curriculum. They were prepared by the butler in private homes and by the more experienced waiters in hotels and restaurants. The custom of serving tasty bits as preliminary to dinner started in Russia where they were called "Zakouski" and with the "Smorgasbord" of the Scandinavian countries, where the guests eat and drink them standing-and in a room apart from the dining room, later spreading to France, Italy and Spain. PETER BORR...
...Across the Straits of Gibraltar from Spanish Morocco, Generalissimo Franco rushed 14,000 more troops, some of them foreign volunteers and tatterdemalion striplings. In a few weeks he will sidetrack great numbers of troops to reap the July grain harvest if he wants his soldiers to have enough to eat this autumn...
...Wrigley Field, President David P. Fleming of the Los Angeles Angels last week installed an innovation to make their baseball games more attractive: a clubhouse section behind third base where, for 25'' each, customers can sit at 40 tables, eat and drink in comfort while watching games...
...controlled their every moment ever since Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe delivered them. Their birthday party this week will be a strictly hygienic affair. They will wear special party dresses with embroidery and ribbons, but their parents Oliva & Elzire Dionne, their five older brothers and sisters who are to eat most of the birthday cake, will be obliged to wear white cotton hospital gowns over their everyday clothes. If any one of them has a cold or even looks ill, he will lose his invitation to the party...