Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapermen who gave Firpo his nom de guerre, "Wild Bull of the Pampas." And later it was the newspapermen who had Luis eat raw meat. Thus with a single flourish of the pen is a bovine rendered carnivorous. One journalist (Frank F. O'Neill of The Sun and The Globe] had wit enough to remark: " The public is expected to see a horned man roaming about with blood from fresh-killed steaks dripping from his mouth...
Ever since the crash in 1920, the leather companies have been in almost continuous difficulties. Addeo to their huge losses on inventory values is the fact that since leather is a by-product of the meat and other industries, the leather trade cannot regulate the supply of raw hides with the same ease as other industries regulate their sources of supply. Moreover, the new styles in women's shoes make for a reduced use of leather, and automobile manufacturers are employing painted cloth and leather substitutes to a greater degree than formerly...
...time. Encouraged by tremendous enthusiasm, the actors had a tendency to a declamatory utterance and self-consciousness the moment the action became tense, which revealed every dramatic absurdity in the play. How could they help it?-There was tremendous melodrama of life, and There was an audience craving raw meat: They...
...Development of the world's production of meat...
...word that was applied formerly to the butchers of Japan when meat-eaters were social pariahs. Although the ignominy attached to this class of people was removed by a legislative ordinance some years ago, the Eta have, nevertheless, been subjected to discriminatory treatment. The difficulty is to find some means of effectively destroying the absurd prejudice. It is evidently not enough to pass a law; for although it may be illegal to slight the Eta, there is always a way out of the difficulty for the superior classes: that of leaving them severely alone...