Word: eating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since President Roosevelt has raised the value of King George's solid gold dinner service from, $9,000,000 to $16,000,000 (approximate), His Majesty decided last week not to risk it at the Jubilee banquet. Guests will eat off china, may afterward view the gold plates, some of which some of them might have snitched, in a brightly lighted, closely guarded Buckingham Palace showcase. Even a butter plate would have been good...
...precarious health. Publisher Ochs joined heartily in a staff meeting in the Chattanooga city room. Then with his brother Col. Milton Ochs and a few other relatives he went to a restaurant for luncheon. Brother Milton asked him what he wanted to eat. He sat dumb, not hearing, not seeing. Few hours later Death stopped the heart of Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times...
...nobody suffers. Nobody is being favored. The schools not included will produce their usual number of students who will eat up the college board examinations. They have been prepared to do them...
...Deprive a native Solomon Islander of vitamins and proteins demanded by nature and he will eat his neighbor. Give him natural food and he will become ashamed of his former flesh eating. Cannibalism was originally due to lack of meat in the islands. Then it became surrounded by ceremonials. Weaker tribes who had been driven from lowlands and available animal life by stronger tribes took to cannibalism for the sake of a balanced diet, including fats and oils. I believe that the South Sea Islands had no indigenous animal life, except possibly the pig, and it was probably brought...
...When I am particularly angry with an ex-cannibal or his children, I call them such. It is worse than a slap in the face. They would rather eat bully beef than human flesh because there is more salt in it. I don't think they would eat white men at all, as they are afraid of a new diet. Cannibals usually are weaklings. There will be no cannibalism among the Solomon Islands in ten years, when civilization contacts the back country...