Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...term bills of students at Harvard College in Cambridge were for years met by the payment to the bursar of produce, live-stock, meat and occasionally "with various articles raked from the closets of undergraduate debtors." One man, later president of the college, settled his bill with an old cow, -- whose merits and value proved cause for a spirited dispute. The accounts of the fund for the first college building include the entry: "Received a goat, 30s, plantation of Watertown rate, which died...
...menus showed that the service here was of the best, and that the food was fit for the palates of royalty. In fact it seems to have been the custom for the athletes to chew on thongs of leather just before a contest, and to eat quantities of raw meat after their exertions in the games...
...word. He would consider it a drudge, would give up the whole thing, and go out for some other sport. The track and crew men, of course, have to keep fairly strict training, but even so, they have not yet found the need of training tables where red meat is served up ad lib. They live a natural life...
...Shaviainism; but they go a long way in helping most of us to understand the playwright. "Getting Married," playing this week at the Copley, is no exception to Shaw's rules. It is witty, intellectual and enjoyable; it tears down without building up; it makes mince-meat of "class" and "respectability"; and it leaves the mind in a whirl. We should like to believe that Shaw had a serious intent in pointing out so many flaws in the modern marriage system; indeed, there were not a few places where the lines spoke with startling earnestness. But then we should...
...outstanding conception of the Cantabrigian student, in the popular mind, is a snobbish, and pompous individual, scion of a bloated meat-packer, correctly dressed and redressed for every occasion, insensible to the lure of the classic fount, but pursuing the social whirl in liveried equipage. This is all wrong...