Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Natural History, under William J. Morden and James L. Clark, cabled from Peking its return from Tibet and Turkestan with enough of the creatures to make a large family group. The despatch said ovis poli were 'not so rare'; reported that the natives slaughter them wholesale for meat; reported seeing 33 in one herd. . . . My brother, Theodore, was active last week making speeches in his native state (New York), on military economy (which he at- tacked) and migration to farms (which he advocated...
...South American has too much imagination. Not satisfied to leave blank the unexplored part of his continent, he fills the map with detail. When one reached a point where the map shows a river, but there is none, it causes uncomfortable confusion. We had to live on monkey meat and caterpillars, great fuzzy ones. I never thought they would be so tough, but these took a lot of chewing...
...situation spoke for itself, so we made camp together and had some fresh gazelle meat which one of the Lieutenant's men had shot that morning. After dinner a native drum was produced coffee was brewed and the Arabs organized a barbershop quartee and sang like forty eat fights. As for the Europeans, I broke out a bottle of Mr. Hennessey's famous product, of the third magnitude, and we proceeded to wax very friendly. Presently, the Lieutenant felt constrained to sing of the charms peculiar to a certain lady from Armentieres, wherenon I retaliated with a spirited...
...last week. Director F. F. Dworak declared that these cannibals, the Seris Indians, have thus far made away with "most of the investigators" who have visited their isle. "The Seris," he continued, "are a people of enormous stature with particularly long legs. They go about unclothed, and prefer their meat or fish either raw or in a partially decomposed condition. We shall attempt to educate the Seris at an early date...
...this dance of death to go on until the whole world is bankrupt, or until man's machinery of warfare becomes so effective that like Dunderbeck he will be ground to sausage meat in his own invention...