Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner; the chief character a cockroach. According to our informant he was a well fed and healthy-looking specimen, as yet unimpaired by his diet. When first observed he was ambling steadily across the tiled floor. One of the House scientists spotted him, gathered him up and inverted a glass over him in the center of the table, with the apparant intention of studying his life habits...
...Senate was considering a bill appropriating $50,000,000 for crop, feed and seed loans to farmers. Senator after Sena tor was rising to put in good word, to make a friendly gesture towards his constituents, when Carter Glass of Virginia rose with a sly light in his sharp...
That the art of eating has gone the way of the art of glass blowing was made plain by such order lists as the one above which is just part of the menu for a 1468 dinner tendered two English statesmen. Or, if you are still hungry just peruse the following food which required 62 chefs to prepare for a contemporary spread. Six wild bulls, 104 oxen, 400 swine, 1000 mutton, 1200 quail, 304 stags, and 3000 pigs were among the delicate offered to the gathering of 4000. Just what percentage of the 4000 had another little snack at bedtime...
...part of John L. Lewis' strategy. In Detroit a 24-day strike of Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp., makers of parts for Ford and others, was settled with an agreement to boost minimum wages from 50^ to 65^ an hour. In Pittsburgh the gS-day strike of Pittsburgh Plate Glass workers was settled with an agreement to boost wages 8/ an hour, establish a minimum wage of 63^ an hour. Libbey-Owens-Ford glass workers on strike for five weeks again failed to make a settlement, but it seemed that glass-labor troubles would soon be over. More important...
Urbane, affable, gregarious, he likes good Scotch, good cigars, good dinners, Stilton cheese, seldom appears without a white carnation in his lapel. Years ago after making long telescope observations, with a glass of Scotch & soda for company, he used to dream that he was suspended in interstellar space at a temperature of Absolute Zero. Lately such nightmares have troubled him less frequently...