Word: eating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though [More] was moderate in eating and drinking, he was never fussy and he tried to avoid all singularity. No man ever lived who was less of a faddist. He did eat meat, and was specially fond of corned beef...
Indigestible. In Bristol, England, a divorce was granted to Arthur lies, who testified that shortly after his wife refused to eat with him he found her serving lunch-in-bed to a strange...
...provinces, food was again more plentiful and prices were down. In Biarritz, at luxury hotels such as the Miramar, room & board was about $8 a day. In smaller places a tourist could eat and sleep well for as little as $2 to $4 a day. All hotels had stern instructions from the government not to gouge U.S. tourists. Said Minister of Transport Christian Pineau: "[Americans] are no longer all millionaires . . . We will have to show [them] a good time at a reasonable price...
...TIME'S authority for citing Sir Thomas More as a meat-eater was Erasmus, as quoted by Theodore Maynard in his book, Humanist as Hero; the Life of Sir Thomas More (Macmillan; 1947): "He likes to eat corned beef and corned bread much leavened, rather than what people count delicacies...
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