Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Book.* The red brick schoolhouse, copy books, McGuffey's readers; Rockefeller's millions and Roosevelt's teeth; Langley and the Wright Brothers building flimsy miracles; Hill and Harriman fighting for a railroad; automobiles and oil wells and Andrew Carnegie, "The Octopus," The Jungle and dirty canned meat; "The Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight," "Old Dan Tucker," "Buffalo Gals" and "The Man with the Hoe." These are a few of the elements of history in the first years of the century; they are a few of the elements in Volume II of Mark Sullivan's Our Times...
...first-degree murder. He sought to take depositions from 75 witnesses in various cities- including Attorney General Sargent and Roy A. Haynes- to show that he had killed to elude a plot against his own life and property. For another man, 'Legger Remus preliminaries were meat. He, Charles Phelps Taft II, lanky, a son of the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, nephew and namesake of the publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star, outstanding member of an outstanding college class*, found in the Remus case his first opportunity to function with public importance. As prosecuting attorney...
Swift & Co. v. the U. S. (Asking to be freed from an agreement to confine activities to meat packing...
great liar is entirely ignoble. J. Daniel Thompson, for instance, pretends for. the sake of his daughter's admiration, to be understudy to Richard Mansfield in Cyrano de Bergerac, whereas in reality he clanks chains and chews raw meat in the role of Wild Man at the 14th Street Palace of Living Wonders. Before that he was a vender of snake oil and Indian cure; and his compound sentences, derived from long professional practice, are rolled with an unctuous grandeur by George Hassell, who plays him to the last shake of his ponderous belly. You have the feeling that...
...section; 3) the need of mustangs, however wild, for water-caused A. L. Cross, head of the Oregon Humane Society, to announce last week that several hundred mustangs had died of thirst, that thousands were nearing death. Humane Society officers urged that the suffering mustangs be slaughtered and their meat shipped to Europe...