Word: lobster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being on the top floor of the Chrysler Building) for I have heard tell of persons in skyscrapers getting sick from the swaying of the building; but I would not swear this was my case for also now I remember I did eat a lobster for dinner: Therefore up, and soon comes----and I to apologize for being caught breechless but he did not mind and took to telling me about a lecture he heard recently by an Harvard alumnus wherein much was said about the grave of John Harvard in Charlestown Cemetery being in a deplorable condition...
...being a good Democrat, he picked Andrew Jackson. The occasion was the Democratic Party's Jackson Day Dinner in Washington. The meal cost 2,000 diners $50 per plate- $5 for food and $45 for the Party's campaign chest. When he had eaten tomato stuffed with lobster, diamondbacked terrapin soup, breast of capon, hearts of palm salad and other things, the 32nd President of the U. S. arose and broadcast as follows on the 7th President...
...vacuous is vast Canada that the 90,000 assorted farmers, fox-breeders, lobster folk, oystermen and smugglers who have ample room on the 2,184 square miles of Prince Edward Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence can boast that they are the Dominion's most densely populated province. Last week their ballots drove the final provincial nail into the political coffin of Canada's rich & prosperous Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett who is now somewhat less of a national hero than Herbert Hoover...
...State carriage, escorted by Argentine grenadiers, the two Presidents drove along the boulevards to the Presidential palace and a lobster dinner. After that the week...
...thousand pounds of lobster were a mere nothing. Up the broad Plata nosed the Brazilian battleship São Paulo with President Vargas aboard, the cruisers Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul, escorted by two Argentine battleships, six cruisers and a squadron of destroyers. High overhead zoomed a squadron of 13 Brazilian naval planes that had flown all the way from Rio de Janeiro. There should have been 18, but three were forced down at Rio Grande do Sul and two were reported missing. Crowds along the waterfront cheered the survivors to the echo...