Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Students assert that with this large salary the young lieutenants will be able to hog the whole of Calea Victoriei?the great after-tea promenade?and run away with all the pretty girls. . . . Students interviewed gave scores of cases of their lycée comrades who failed in the early periods of their work and who are today officers looking forward to the big increase while these students aren't half way through the university...
...friend Josephine Hutchinson to carry when she plays Alice in Wonderland. A complete search of Manhattan's pet shops failed to reveal a suitable animal so Miss Le Gallienne wrote to the press about it. What she wanted was a pig that would not grow into a hog during the course of the play's run. She preferred a quiet animal that could make its public appearance without wiggling, kicking, snorting. An occasional squeal would be permitted on stage, however, for the only way Alice knows that the Duchess' baby, which she has been holding, is nothing...
Walter Ferguson, Sterling supporter, declared his brother Jim was "no more interested in the common people than a hog in rock pile." On primary day some 900,000 Texas Democrats, deeply stirred by the campaign, went to the polls, cast a record vote which nominated Candidate Sterling by a majority of almost 100,000. The entire big-city press of Texas agreed with him when he claimed his victory was a "triumph of good government" and the end of "Fergusonism." Nominee Sterling, sure of election, will have perfunctory opposition in November from Dr. Charles Butte, Republican gubernatorial nominee. Born poor...
Next day at Dodge City Chairman Legge, referring to Kansas as the largest U. S. wheat producing State, declared: "The biggest hog will always lie in the trough. Kansas is now in its trough." By the time he had reached Amarillo, Tex., Kansas was up in arms at his epithet. Max and Louis Levand, publishers of the Wichita Beacon, wired President Hoover that his Farm Board Chairman had "insulted 1.850.000 people," demanded Mr. Legge's resignation. To Chairman Legge they telegraphed...
...swine raisers of East Prussia," boomed Deputy Freybe, "I say, 'Don't raise so many hogs.' If you must raise hogs, raise thin ones, raise them for meat, not for fat. We must remember the younger generation in Germany. It is keen on sport and hygiene. It thinks of its waistline. It absolutely cannot be made to eat hog fat and lard...