Word: feed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oftener it has been scorned for its superabundance of food tastelessly cooked, hastily and sloppily served. Guests were taken to the gallery "to see the animals feed," or perhaps were introduced with a line of James Russell Lowell's to view...
...appointed. He also ran the halls successfully and well. But the President still disliked the cafeteria. The fact that the "caff" was too small to feed the number of students desiring to eat there made no difference. Despite the fact that every year a waiting list, numbered into the hundreds, while Memorial Hall was begging for customers, it was decided that the cafeteria be closed. The burning of Massachusetts Hall afforded an excuse of expediency. The college needed the room for offices. Here was a chance to discontinue the cafeteria, and to make Memorial Hall conform to the ideals...
...immorality. Students who ought to be firm-nerved, straight-thinking and clear-eyed go through their college course with a perpetual tired feeling, irritable, sluggish-eyed and languid-brained. They sit torpidly through classes and wonder why the professors are so boresome. They slump dismally into a chair and feed their minds on what takes the least mental effort. They wish that something would happen . . . A few men seem to be able to operate indefinitely on a very little sleep . . . But the chances are a hundred to one that you are not [able] . . . Nature always collects her bills...
...times such as the present, when money is very generally seeking investment, the security swindler plans to reap his harvest. Already the published tax lists have provided many valued suggestions to the Caesars as to the meat whereon they may feed. Promoters are becoming active in the ever-fruitful Middle West. In spurious securities as in women's hats, fashions come and go. The great oil stock mania has apparently burned itself out, but in its place has arrived a credulity concerning fake land companies, ingenious but unsalable patent devices with "millions in it," and other corporate novelties...
...cosmopolitan Paris there can be found some people to proclaim anyone or anything from Voliva of Zion City to the Great Cham of Tartary. Such demonstrations cannot be taken, therefore, with the naive faith the newspapers seem to accord them. They do, however, feed the popular fear that every communist is an unshorn, unwashed carrier of death and destruction...