Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unwelcome guest, elaborately welcomed, is fair meat for "Elizabeth's" delicate irony. Gay and delightful in manner, there is no gaiety in Expiation-all marriage is discontent, all marriage disagreeable. And according to old Mrs. Bott, the negative moral is that troubles, being the stuff that dreams are made on, will pass...
...Little rolls filled with chopped, spiced meat...
...Meanwhile a white-faced, scant-clad crowd had gathered?men who had had no steady work for .three years .past, men who eat meat never more than once a week, but Britishers, for they gave the well-fed young man in two overcoats a thin tut loyal cheer. Cried a quavering old man: "Ay, ay, the dear lad's a champion!"?perhaps referring to the fact that the Prince's radio appeal at Christmastide brought in some $2,000,000 for mine-relief...
...This corporation is the Investment Trust?a company formed to trade in the stocks of other companies, a company whose stock is backed only by other stocks. Yet this paper house built on a paper foundation is stronger than many a structure based on stone and steel. For as meat is a commodity to the butcher, as money is a commodity to the banker, so stocks and bonds are commodities to the Investment Trust, and dealing in them is no more fantastic than dealing in sides of beef or bags of bullion...
...connection with the securing of the Eskimo teeth models from Commander MacMillan, Dr. Fernald arranged with Professor Hooton of the Peabody Museum at Harvard to secure impressions of the teeth of Yucatan natives during a southern expedition. These people are famous as vegetable eaters. Most of them eat no meat whatever. It was found that their teeth were very much decayed. At a surprisingly early age, their teeth lost all semblance of even a normally healthy condition, and most of them, when middle aged, had practically no teeth, whatever. It has been the experience of most dentists that those people...