Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week at Atlantic City's Million Dollar Pier, between an educated chimpanzee and a hermaphrodite, was an educated politician. Behind a glass door marked MAYOR was His Honor Harry Bacharach. It was not long before a local wag attached to the door another sign: PLEASE DO NOT FEED...
...their hair, in a wild dance to the music of a concertina across broad sunny fields. At home the routine is monotonously wretched. His thieving older brother and dull sister, the mother's favorites, get the melon. He is allowed to gnaw the rinds before being sent to feed them to the rabbits. He is abused for answering a question with bread in his mouth, laughed at for being afraid of the dark. The child's torture is made credible by the sly malice with which his unnatural mother administers it. One night Foil de Carotte does...
...steady reproduction. The queen becomes a huge inert egg-laying machine with a production capacity of some 50,000 per day. The king is a tiny fellow whose main function is to be the queen's husband. They cohabit for life, which may last ten years. Their offspring feed them and each other with food either regurgitated or exuded through the skin. Some species sprout an edible fungus garden in which the young may graze...
Four years ago Los Angeles followed Chicago's lead, started a Businessmen's Orchestra under L. M. Bardet, a grain & feed man. Akron. Ohio, has an orchestra composed of doctors and dentists, organized so efficiently that when its members are called out on emergency cases there are alternate players ready to take their places...
...celebrated neo-Colonial plant wisely financed, well-staffed but half-empty. Built to accommodate 200 students. Tome had this year only 100. Its $1,500 tuition was too high to attract new boys. Experience has taught Headmaster Shortlidge that although it costs nearly twice as much to feed 200 boys as it does to feed 100. they do not cost twice as much to educate. Last week he announced a financial plan the simplicity of which would have done credit to Andrew William Mellon: Even if enrollment does not increase next year. Tome's tuition will...