Word: eating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...different. The boss's car takes you to work. You work in a warm, clean office, and when the day is done, the boss's car takes you to his luxurious apartment. There you eat steak, drink red wine, and, after brandy and coffee by the fire, you go to bed in a soft, clean bed in the boss's bedroom...
...want to treat everybody good," says Tacho, wide-eyed. "I once told F.D.R. about democracy in Central America. Democracy down here is like a baby-and nobody gives a baby everything to eat right away. I'm giving 'em liberty-but in my style. If you give a baby a hot tamale, you'll kill...
...days, before success came, sometimes look pretty good to Faulkner: "I was a free man. Had one pair of pants, one pair of shoes, and an old trench coat with a pocket big enough for a whiskey bottle; Now I get stacks of letters, asking what I eat for breakfast, and what about curves and linear discreteness...
Long-Legged Fish. Behind this round-robin anthropophagy, Dr. Wolff detects the outlines of a weird and dreadful religion. According to ancient legends, death and the fear of death ruled Easter Island. It was good to eat people, for into the eater then flowed the life of a "long-legged fish." Human sacrifices, piously (and frequently) performed on the tops of volcanoes, gave new life...
...School students, incensed over a recent statement in Yale-controlled Life Magazine, have challenged the Eli football coach to a gastronomical contest. The remark, contained in the Luce publication's pale blue appraisal of the nation's new coaches, said, "Herman Hickman can eat more than any two men alive...