Word: grubbing
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...takes his stance behind him, elbows rivals for the vacancy out of the road, barks his order at the waitress, pulls TIME out of his pocket, and then for 15 minutes glues his eyes to the page while his right hand automatically pokes grub into his mouth to be gulped down in hunks...
...Literary Digest is as much predigestion of the affairs of the world as I care for, and what they miss I shall try to grub out of the daily papers...
They say that Liberty, five-cent fiction weekly of Col. Robert R. McCormick and Major Joseph Medill Patterson, proud overlords of that opulent vulgarian, the Chicago Tribune and its get-rich-quick little grub-sister, the New York Daily News, was established as an outlet for accumulated moneys upon which the income tax was becoming burdensome. Loosely speaking it was founded to "lose money...
Back at Ann Arbor many continued to feel queer. They became nauseated. Maybe nervous indigestion. They began to lose their appetites. Boardinghouse "grub." And when diarrhea and fever came on they grew worried. However, in all but four men these symptoms passed quickly. In two, three weeks the eyelids of these four became swollen. Every time they moved their eyes their eyeballs ached. Their muscles ached all over. High time to consult a doctor...
...unread. Indeed the present has little sympathy with many of the ideals and standards of the nineteenth century. Traditions, morals, and conventions have to bear the daily shafts of the lighter humorists, to say nothing of the sledge-hammer blows of H. L. Menken and the rest of the Grub Street fry on the American Mercury. Emerson, Carlyle, and Mill are no longer known at first hand. Writers of little depth have succeeded to popularity, if not to their places. It is quite likely that society has suffered from this. But who will say that it is the worse...