Word: larded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with crocodile tears." Jelke, he said, was just a "little toy poodle." Prosecutor Liebler had another word for him: "Jelke's a male madam; that's what he is!" When the jury came in with a guilty verdict, Mickey, who is now 25, turned as white as lard: he faces a maximum sentence of 40 years in the penitentiary. But with luck and good behavior he will probably be out in plenty of time to collect his inheritance, due in 1960. Other punishment has already been visited upon him: he has served 6½ months in the workhouse...
RECORD FOOD SUPPLIES will keep prices stable this year, says the Agriculture Department. Though poultry production will drop about 3%, pork, lard, coffee, citrus products, rice and other grains will rise from 1% to 14% next year...
...remains chief executive officer. Holmes, the first non-Swift to be president, replaced Harold Higgins Swift, 70, who becomes honorary chairman. Jarvis majored in animal husbandry at Iowa State College ('24), later took a meat-packing course at the University of Chicago. There his thesis on packaged lard caught the eye of a visiting executive from Swift, who offered him a trainee job with the company. In 1933 he became assistant to Holmes, then vice president in charge of the pork division, later moved up to vice president...
...pickpockets than the opposition. Back in 1951 a Harvard defensive unit held off a swarm of righteous Princetons for a full 20 minutes. That same year when the Crimson beat Brown officials had attempted to foil the raiders by covering the posts with a thick coat of lard. But blue blazers were used to wipe the posts clean enough to permit razing...
...dismal stretch the Giants lost 11 in a row. It was a test of fire for loyal followers, and many a diehard, headed for Coogan's Bluff, was heard to mutter lamely that he was going out to the ballpark, only because he needed a sunbath. The lard-encased Manhattan saloonkeeper, Toots Shor, once spoke the agony of all Giant fans in one gloomy flirtation with apostasy. "I been wonderin' lately," he told a friend. "I'm raising my kids to be Giant fans. I don't know whether I'm doing the right thing...