Word: grub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signed Dean as a cockeye after watching him pitch rocks at squirrels. Dizzy patiently explains: "I throw so hard with my right arm that I squash up them squirrels somethin' turrible and they ain't fit eatin'. . . . When I'm out rustlin' up our grub ... I got to throw left-handed...
...Grub gabble: A female assemblage...
...Geneticist William Bateson was so backward in school that his headmaster wrote: "It is very doubtful whether so vague and aimless a boy will profit by University life." He remained fabulously vague: he would buy a ticket to a play and show up by mistake at a musical show, grub in his garden in a brand-new suit and go to London in dirty old garden flannels...
Once in a while he emerged-unkempt but clear-eyed, a prospector's pack on his back, a notched pistol in the homemade holster on his hip-to stalk into town for grub. People left him severely alone: he had dropped a running rabbit at 100 yards with that pistol. They called him "King of the Gulch...
Many of them recalled when it had been the other way round. Joe had grub staked them, paid their debts, put them to bed when they could not get there themselves, jacked them up with advice, taught them pinochle and penguingue (a Filipino game played with eight decks of cards). A New Jersey baker with a suspicion of tuberculosis, Joe went to work at the new Denver Press Club a few hours after he hit town...