Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catherine Becken Pairot made the mistake of lending Widow Becker some money, the much worse mistake of taking a meal with her. She died...
Most of the cotton South's 1,700,000 tenant farmers live by The Book, and The Book is not the Holy Bible. It is a ledger where "furnish" is entered. Furnish is credit for "side meat" (salt pork), molasses, corn meal, seed, sometimes for a mule and a plow. Landlords, or merchants dependent upon them, run The Book. Without furnish, few tenants could live through the winter, or plant in the spring...
...seven children who was expecting an eighth fed her family through neighbors' aid. The menu: breakfast, bread and tea; lunch, spaghetti and bread; dinner, bread and salmon. The children shared a quart of milk. A 76-year-old woman who said she had not had a square meal for six days waited from 5 to 8 a. m., for a relief station to open its doors. Another fainted, was taken to a hospital for treatment, then released. A Mrs. Florence Barindt had received no relief money for herself and her three children since mid-April. The Barindt larder contained...
...looks Roman, he asks interestedly: "Do you mean sensual?" His own description of himself: "I look like the dog-faced boy." Troubled by his asthma, untroubled by his flat feet, Welles gets a little exercise walking and fencing, most by directing and rehearsing. He starts off a Falstaffian meal with a dozen oysters, tops it off with a big black 75?cigar...
...steel mill. At Lincoln Memorial, a mountain college in Tennessee, he almost killed a hazer the first day, again licked the school bully, was editor of the college literary magazine. At Vanderbilt University he worked his way through (seven hours a day) and got along for months on one meal a day. As principal of the Greenup County High School he put the fear of God into the town toughs who interrupted school entertainments...