Word: goates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newlywed Crown Prince went to bed with a fever of 102°. But he was not through. Before he is really Fawziya's husband, he will have to travel with his bride to Iran (in a separate stateroom), be married the Persian way, feast 96 hours on goat's meat, watch nautch girls (professional dancers) do their stuff...
...Torah is made of parchment (calf or goat), hand-written by a scribe who must perform his task with the greatest purity of spirit and body, often taking a bath before writing. If anyone drops the Torah during a service, everyone present must fast for one day. Though it may be carefully uncovered, the scroll must not be touched by hand...
...lost a few pounds, won all his points, lived on. At high noon one day last week the skinny, 80-pound, 69-year-old Mahatma sat down before a crowd of sympathetic spectators and ate a meal of brown bread, cooked vegetables, oranges and a cup of hot goat's milk. Then he retired to a rustic cot in a room as bare as a Sing Sing cell and began his sixth fast until victory or death...
...corporation was Leland W. Cutler, who is no gardenia-fragrant showman like New York's Grover Aloysius Whalen,* yet is just as sound a financier and heady planner. An engineer named William Peyton Day made cruise after patient cruise taking soundings of the shoals north of Yerba Buena (Goat) Island, perfecting the idea of pumping up out of the Bay's black bottom a site for the fair which could later serve the city as an airport. Crafty Democrat George Creel got WPA to pay for the pumping...
...sudden the treasurer and inside 'shotters' gang got cold feet and started a secret investigation with no other objective than to cover their steps and run to cover, making me and underlings the goat and bring shame and humiliation on my poor loving wife. . . . There are no millions lost or hidden, much less narcotics or alcohol involved...