Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prussian prisoners are provided with only one bath in four weeks; they are allowed a weekly ration of only 125 grams of meat; saccharine they are given for sugar; their linen is changed but fortnightly. All this is to economize. Berlin journals said it was short-sighted and that prisoners will leave jail more angry than when they entered...
Dunkards were originally a cele-bate order whose membership ate meat only once a year and held property in common. The rules hare now been abandoned in the states where they are strongest, Texas and Tennessee. There are now 100,000 Dunkards. They may marry...
Members of the Police Lieutenants' Benevolent Association dining at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Manhattan, on Friday, Washington's birthday, were to be permitted by dispensation of Archbishop Hayes, to eat meat...
...dispensation follows the precedent of the late Cardinal Farley who obtained from Rome permission for New York Catholics to eat meat on March 17, St. Patrick's Day, when it fell on a Friday...
...breakfast foods both frequently sour," according to a recent Harvard historian,--who also goes on to mention that an "Indian was generally the scullion." Thus one realizes that the present day quasi-barbaric dish is ineradicably rooted in hoary traditions. The staple winter diet at that time was salt meat, followed often by "pye." At a later period an Oxoulan wrote of us that. "There was much complaint about the quality of the food and cookery," and in 1791 it is reported by another chronicler that "diluted milk" was served, and that students desirous of postponing the examinations...