Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deeply, to prevent the disease spreading to other animals. Because of such thorough eradication the U. S., which has had several epidemics of foot-&-mouth disease, now has practically no cases. In the Argentine the disease still prevails. That is one good reason for preventing the importation of Argentine meat into...
...settlement's 41 years, matronly, active Miss Addams is too busy to say much. The idea of taking care of a great city's poor came to her in 1883 when she watched an auctioneer in London's East Side selling a consignment of badly spoiled meat. She and her longtime friend, Julia C. Lathrop, went back to Chicago a few years later and started their charitarian operations in the home of one Charles J. Hull, at Halsted near Polk Street. It was a lively neighborhood. On one side stood a mortuary, on the other a saloon...
...Manhattan, two old Chinese, Eng Loy, 51, and his cousin Eng Fu-wee, 62, retired to their room. Eng Loy asked for a blanket. Eng Fu-wee refused to give him one. Eng Loy grabbed the blanket. Eng Fu-wee hit Eng Loy with a meat cleaver. Eng Loy found a meat cleaver...
Aleek-chea-ahoosh's training as a warrior began when he was a few years old, for the Crows were surrounded with enemies: Sioux, Arapahos, Blackfeet, Piegans, Cheyennes, Shoshones, Flatheads, Gros Ventres. As a small boy his elders taught him how to steal meat from his own village, that later he might steal enemy horses, "count coup." "To count coup a warrior had to strike an armed and fighting enemy with his coupstick, quirt, or bow before otherwise harming him, or take his weapons while he was yet alive, or strike the first enemy falling in battle, no matter...
...foreigners the graceful Spanish mantilla, a veil of cobwebby black or white lace worn on the heads of Spanish ladies,-is as typical of the country as bull fighting or olla podrida (meat and vegetable stew). In modern Spain the only times that mantillas are actually worn are at gala occasions, such as bull fights and during Holy Week. Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie and the Infantas Beatriz and Maria Christina officially inaugurated Mantilla Week by marching into Madrid's cathedral last week, their heads shrouded in the most cobwebby of cream lace mantillas...