Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peril of their red-skinned charges, U. S. Indian agents organized rescue parties, made off for the snow-bound mesas. At the end of the week 789 had been rescued or had straggled home alone. But 200 more piñion nut-hunters presumably subsisting on pony meat were still unaccounted for; eleven were found frozen, dead...
...armies back to France. A painstaking rather than a brilliant soldier, he worked his men almost as hard as he worked himself. To the daily questions: what time would the staff move and what was there to be for dinner?-his answer was invariable: "At daylight; cold meat." His men trusted him, admired him at a distance; called him "that long-nosed b-r that beats the French." The admiration was not mutual. Wellington's frequently-expressed opinion of Tommy Atkins: "The scum of the earth, the mere scum of the earth. . . . The English soldiers are fellows who have...
...interests. His enlightened "betrayal" of his landlord friends ranks with James Ramsay Mac-Donald's high-minded "treachery" to British Labor (TIME, Sept. 7). In his budgets of 1842, 1845 and 1846, Pioneer Sir Robert whittled away the "Corn Laws," reduced the prohibitory British tariffs on cattle, pigs, meat, cheese and butter. He even lowered the duty on imported stage-coaches...
...second for one to spring out of the Juilliard stage, for Jack to go shinnying up and find the giant's castle. Then & there the wise cow would have appraised the swaggering giant at his worth, for although he looked fierce storming about and devouring whole roasts of meat, he was more his real self when singing in a silly, spindling falsetto...
...driven his wife to a Hollywood club meeting one day last week, Cornelius Van Ness Leavitt. 57-year-old retired plumber of Santa Monica, found time heavy on his hands. He would, he decided, go and see his old friend Cliff Dailey who ran a grocery and meat store. Cliff was out at lunch when big, jovial Mr. Leavitt marched in. Later Store keeper Dailey returned and stopped to wait on a woman. Visitor Leavitt sauntered to the rear of the store. There at a sink behind a partition he found a man who looked like a truck driver swigging...