Word: feds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the ceremonies began Mrs. Coolidge paused to admire seven nightingales prisoned behind bamboo laced with poinsettias. She fed them several wriggling worms of a rare species raised specially and shipped from Philadelphia. Six brightly insolent flamingoes stalking near picking up their food for themselves...
...split-pea industry was seriously threatened by importations from China. A Port Huron, Mich., witness extolled the power-producing qualities of U. S.. split-pea soup. In a test, he said, cross-country runners were fed for 16 days on split-pea soup and they got 65 miles to the gallon...
...Meanwhile a white-faced, scant-clad crowd had gathered?men who had had no steady work for .three years .past, men who eat meat never more than once a week, but Britishers, for they gave the well-fed young man in two overcoats a thin tut loyal cheer. Cried a quavering old man: "Ay, ay, the dear lad's a champion!"?perhaps referring to the fact that the Prince's radio appeal at Christmastide brought in some $2,000,000 for mine-relief...
...three years, and last week she gave birth to her eighth child. "How do you live?" questioned Edward. "Well, you see," said Mr. Cameron, "I get ten bob [$2.40] a week from the Poor Law Guardians and 18 bob [$4.30] in vouchers for food." Thus nine mouths have been fed on $6.70 a week, and now there is a tenth. This latter aspect of miner-woe was frankly discussed by Bachelor Wales with Father-of-Eight Cameron. British correspondents indicated what H. R. H. had said by reporting that he spoke to the workless begetter with "sympathy and anger...
...article, "Harvard: Fair and Cooler", in the latest Saturday Evening Post, Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts bites the hand that fed him, apologetically but severely. His caricature of the Harvard he saw and the Harvard men who tried to interpret Harvard for him is a diabolically clever masterpiece. He takes a couple of thousand words to prove that Harvard men are egocentric asses trying to appear indifferent when they are not, starving in Harvard Square hashhouses, and lying prostrate in idolatrous worship of the Great God Final Club. He takes a concluding paragraph to show that Harvard men are studious...