Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armies came home to their wives, the 14-year-olds had to do something. Last week Chancellor Hitler offered the 600,000 to the housewives of Germany, as housemaids without pay for one year. The wives will teach the maidens how to cook, serve, wash and clean, will feed and bed them and pay their health insurance premiums. Friedrich Syrup, director of the Federal Institute for Unemployment Insurance, promised to find the girls paying jobs at the end of the "kitchen year." Cried he: "Are young German girls, your daughters, to receive as their first impression in life the curse...
...clubs, raised dogs as a hobby. By March 1933 Mr. Goff had acquired 24 assorted dogs and lost considerable money in a flyer in the refractory business. ''How do you keep your Great Danes' coats so glossy?" a friend asked him. Mr. Goff replied, "Let me feed your dogs for a few weeks and I'll guarantee their coats will improve." With his wife's kitchen knives, his baby's weighing scales, his gardener and $15 worth of meat, he retired to his garage. The gardener helped chop the meat and Mr. Goff took...
...Politics has laid a heavy hand of wrath upon the benevolent Society of St. Tammany. Disinherited by the national democratic organization, harried by a Rooseveltian governor in Albany, and finally, in the ultimate cataclysm, kicked out of the city feed troughs, the society took to sack-cloth and ashes, fixed a Day of Atonement, and picked a Scape-goat...
...motor ship of 5,113 gross tonnage, Leningrad built in 1931, trimly painted, carrying a cargo of cement, mica, chalk, fuller's earth, Caucasian wine, oil of apricots, juniper (gin) berries. All her officers and able seamen had individual outside cabins amidship. She carried two young stewardesses to feed and amuse her picked crew of young cadets. Even her name KNM (Kim} was chosen for pronunciation by non-Russian tongues. Aside from the motto "Ahead To World's Revolution" inscribed in the crew's game room (equipped with piano and radio) she took every precaution...
...England the colleges feed the government with a steady stream of young talent which is absorbed through the lower appointive positions. In America no such entrance to politics is at present available and can be supplied only by a group of Public Service Colleges in the larger universities, colleges which would supplant the local party club as the origin of American statesmen...