Word: feedings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than the other, and then little fights ensued in which the old man who had been for that day the most energetic berated his friend for letting him spend the little energy that life had left to him. One day last week Koman went out to feed the ducks. Rupor followed him querulously, complained that he wasted food, showed favoritism to the handsomer ducks. High words- rascal, duck-dodger, miser-followed. Rupor struck with a spade, Koman fell down dead. The policemen who came for Rupor found him asleep...
Myths he has fed upon. Upon myths will be continue to feed. So perhaps one need take with no less salt his fear than the calm which preceded it. If the administration is honest this order was issued merely for the purpose of assisting Californian agents in the performance of their "duty". And it is always well to believe that the administration is honest...
...automatic writings and spirit photographs-the laying on of hands, deep breathings, vegetarianism, fastings, formulae of monotonous sayings of the genre of Coue's, with its smug 'Every day in every way I am getting better and bet-ter'-these are those rivers and tributaries that feed the encroaching sea of modern occultism. It is the business of the church to take her stand upon the sayings of the Master to the effect that 'an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign'; that 'the kingdom of God cometh not with observation...
...oyster in Grimsby, England (my native city), with two ordinary mice trapped by the neck and killed. The custom is to feed oysters with barley water in a dish. The oyster one day with shell open was attacked by mice and closed his shell. Thousands of picture cards were sold by Lowthian Bros., photographers. I would not have believed it if I had not seen the animals in the photographer's window. Live oysters are sure mousetraps...
...state: "Is it equitable and just that you should force this upon the people of Florida, a state which is large in proportion, having 58,000 square miles-as large as New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island together; a state which produces enough vegetables and enough eatable products to feed the city of New York...