Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flesh & Meat...
...TIME, June 7 under the heading of "Theatre," you reported at great length the proceedings of the recent convention of the American Theatre Council. Several times in the course of this article, reference is made to "meat shows." I have been interested in the theatre for many years as a performer, manager and attorney and, for the first time, saw this expression used with reference to entertainment on the stage. In order to check my doubts as to the validity of this expression, I spoke with several people including a theatrical press agent, a reporter on Variety, the theatrical trade...
...Flesh entertainment" is a "meat show" to the less elegant rank & file of the theatrical profession...
...Steel Co. (20 copies); Automatic Voting Machine Corp. (12); Monolith and Medusa Portland Cement Companies. Hammermill Paper Co. (10 each); California Portland Cement Co., Deere & Co. (8 each); The Carborundum Co., Inland Steel Co., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. (4 each). Other bibliophiles: Walter P. Chrysler (50 copies), Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, International Association of Machinists, American Federated Hose Workers of Philadelphia (4 each); Charles M. Schwab...
...days later, Vanderbilt lost another landmark as courtly little Poet John Crowe Ransom (Grace After Meat), co-author of the famed agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand and a pillar of Vanderbilt's English department for 23 years, took a job at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. When his fellow poet and agrarian, Alumnus Allen Tate, wrote an open letter of protest to Chancellor Kirkland, Poet Ransom explained that small, hustling Kenyon had offered him, besides more time for writing, $5,000 a year and a house as against Vanderbilt...