Word: eats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good to eat, easy to catch...
...white farmhouse in the hills at Castleton, N. Y.. overlooking the Hudson, ten miles south of Albany. The grounds include a pear and apple orchard, the pruning of which he made one of his hobbies. Other diversions: hunting, riding, training red setters, splitting firewood, baking waffles to eat with Maryland scrapple. Sunday the whole family decorously went to mass in the Roman Catholic Church of the village. After mass the whole family often tramped the woods...
...Pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease. As laboratory animals they are therefore incapable of shedding much light on human nutrition. Rats, on the other hand, have the same eating habits as man. They need the same minerals and vitamins, fall prey to many of the same diseases. On them new serums, drugs and poisons are tried out. More experimental work has been done with the white, pink-eyed rat (Mus Norvegicus albinus) than with the meek guinea pig - more, in fact, than with all other mammals combined. If men are ever able to thrive on synthetic food...
Wild ducks suffer from bad marksmen as well as from good ones. Shot that falls into the water sinks to the bottom where ducks mistake it for roughage such as gravel or sand. They eat it, die a month or so later of paralysis caused by lead poisoning...
...being on the top floor of the Chrysler Building) for I have heard tell of persons in skyscrapers getting sick from the swaying of the building; but I would not swear this was my case for also now I remember I did eat a lobster for dinner: Therefore up, and soon comes----and I to apologize for being caught breechless but he did not mind and took to telling me about a lecture he heard recently by an Harvard alumnus wherein much was said about the grave of John Harvard in Charlestown Cemetery being in a deplorable condition...