Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell next day addressed a letter of apology to each distinguished guest. In swank Mayfair a rich young Argentine made herself obnoxious to English friends by screaming at cocktail parties, "My dears, in the crush I had a perfect piece of meat on my plate when a clutching hand came over my shoulder and seized it! Wolves-those people on the Maine were simply wolves...
...paid $5,128,869 in processing taxes since November 1933. Petitioning last week for an injunction against collection of $1,771,177 more in taxes due, Hygrade declared that the tax now comprises 47% of its yearly operating cost, takes 21% of its revenue from the sale of meat products. Sales have plummeted because of resulting higher prices and Hygrade felt itself on the verge of destruction...
...superimposed upon this unwelcome image. It is the picture of an inelegant, stupid, arrogant, and inarticulate person with an extremely red face. The French seem to mind our national complexion more than other nations. It gets on their nerves. They attribute it to the overconsumption of ill-cooked meat. They are apt, for this reason, to regard us as barbarian and gross. Only at one point does the French picture coincide with the German picture. The French share with the Germans a conviction of our hypocrisy. The sole difference is that, whereas the Germans regard us as brilliant hypocrites...
...waits until the male gets through eating before she will touch food. The expression in her eyes while she watches the male eat is beautiful. . . . All the animals know me and talk to me in their own languages asking for food. They feed these animals hay and grain and meat when what they need and crave is fresh vegetables. Think of all the castor oil they've had to give the elephants because they let them have peanuts and candy and stuff like that. The poor animals are mistreated. They are imprisoned for lifetime in cages that are much...
...reducing Paraguay's population from 1,337,000 to only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred and leprous, the Indians had multiplied to 800,000 by 1932, living chiefly on maize and mandioca bread, exporting yerba maté tea, tinned meat and tannin from the Gran Chaco's quebracho tree...