Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order. His entire working force is in full swing. It requires no long process of education. If it were replaced--inevitable in any change of administration--a period of uncertainty and chaos would ensue. Furthermore. no matter who might succeed to the Presidency, that individual, in looking for the meat competent advice now before the country, would have to turn to Mr. Hoover. That being the case, he should be kept where he is and where his experience, knowledge, and character can do the most good...
Eskimo winters are long and dreary. Summers are short and dreary. When Eskimos are not busy mushing about, gobbling raw meat and candles, they sit down for a rubber of bridge. And many Eskimos play rather well, too. At Churchill, Canada's new wheat port on Hudson Bay (TIME, Sept. 14), 30 men meet regularly for jump-bids and approach-forces throughout the winter. For one of these there had to be a substitute last week; Arsene Turquetil had laid aside his cards, put on his fur cap and gone down south to Montreal. Arsene Turquetil was hard to replace...
...Long known as "The Bishop," although until last week he was only Prefect Apostolic, Monsignor Turquetil has not been coarsened by taking fishes' snouts in his mouth or by eating raw meat when fuel was lacking. He is urbane, worldly even. He is reported to have invented a new system of bridge-bidding but he insists that "too much stress is being laid on this side of my affairs." On his way to Montreal last month Monsignor Turquetil watched four men playing bridge. One bid a spade His partner, with four aces and three kings, passed. "I took one look...
...Gandhi has three teeth (two upper incisors, one lower left center). He keeps them clean by the dantan, also necessary for tongue-cleansing, as explained by TIME. Eating no meat, he uses his false teeth on few occasions.-ED. Dickey Underbid...
Thus did Neville Chamberlain, Great Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, serve notice on the world last week that 86 years of British free trade were at an end. Effective March i, Britain will impose a 10% ad valorem tariff on all articles not already taxed except meat, wheat, raw cotton, raw wool, tea. British-caught fish and (until after the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa in July) exports from British colonies and dominions...