Word: haunches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invention or languishes in wit. At bottom Falstaff may well be a superb showman, not expecting to be believed, only counting on being relished; not expecting to be acquitted, only certain of being pardoned. "He carves out his jokes," said Hazlitt, "as he would a capon or a haunch of venison, where there is cut and come again; and pours out upon them the oil of gladness. His tongue drops fatness, and in the chambers of his brain 'it snows of meat and drink...
First article was headed "Tsaa-a, Tsaa-a, Tsaa-a," a phrase cryptic until from subhead and text the reader learned that "Tsaa-a" is the cry of the buyer of pigs in the great basal U. S. industry of Packing, which the article expounded, haunch, paunch and squeal, with impressionistic photographs of the Chicago stockyards in action by able staff photographer Margaret Bourke-White...