Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 27 issue of our favorite newsmagazine: Good going and more power to Wild Horse Annie and her campaign [to prevent mustang hunting by airplane and truck]. I wonder how many of our "animal-loving" dog owners realized or even dreamed of the type of food they were passing on to their pampered pups...
...next three months he will awaken at 4 a.m., spend mornings begging food, afternoons in meditation. He will try to observe 228 commandments and confess each failure, no matter how small (example: inadvertently killing an insect). And when the 90 days are over, he will return to his worldly occupation -respected and, he hopes, revitalized for the daily toil in the world of appearances...
...Airman Arkfeld, this trip from the coastal town of Wewak to one of the vicariate's 38 inland stations was routine; he logs an average of 30 flights a week, carries such diverse cargo as day-old chicks, bull calves, building material, engine parts, Australian beer, food, nuns, priests and mission helpers. Now and then he flies armed patrols, native cops or doctors to trouble spots, and he is always available to transport the sick or injured to the nearest hospital. Furthermore, says he, by plane "I am able to make many of my confirmation trips with less effort...
Died. James Hazen Hyde, 83, son of Founder Henry Baldwin Hyde of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and himself an elegant dandy whose $100,000 Manhattan party in 1905-a re-creation of Versailles, with imported French food, wine, clothing and actresses-climaxed the extravagances of the Gilded Age and turned the harsh glare of publicity on the free-spending practices of insurance companies; in Saratoga Springs. N.Y. Spurred by public indignation, a committee of the New York state legislature investigated Equitable, pressured young Hyde to quit his job as vice president. Incensed. Hyde moved to France, where he settled...
Publisher Uhlan was raised in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, got into "the business of getting something out of someone for a price" while living in city convalescent homes after a crippling attack of polio at the age of four. "With the contents of food packages my mother had sent me," he wrote in his vanity-published autobiography, Rogue of Publishers' Row, "I inveigled a fascinating storyteller among the older boys into spinning yarns for me. A chocolate bar was good for Jack and the Beanstalk; a banana would buy Bluebeard or The King of the Golden...