Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief which it was told must last for 30 days- there were seven in that family. Its stores consisted of 8 cans of evaporated milk, 5 cans of processed beef, one 24-lb. bag of flour, one 24-lb. bag of meal and a paper package of nondescript meat, weighing perhaps two or three pounds. This family-white, by the way-had just been dumped down by the side of a country highway, because a father had dared unsuccessfully to invoke "the law" against the riding-boss who had seduced and kidnapped his 14-year-old daughter...
...Dictator does not convey his views or orders in a monolog. Like Mussolini, Stalin has the habit, nerve-racking to his henchmen, of asking them first what they think. They may try to guess what he wants them to think, but inevitably Stalin succeeds in digging out much mental meat. He then sums up, gives his decision, and with sighs of relief the henchmen agree. This method, adopted by Mussolini from Machiavelli's II Principe, Stalin evolved from his innate Oriental flair for despotism. Charming when he chooses, Joseph Stalin, big-boned and big-mustached, last week asked small...
Candidate for the most banal picture was a meat-calendarish illustration of Putnam Called From the Plow by John Ward Dunsmore, A. N. A. Slickest portrait was a huge, brittle canvas by Paul Trebilcock of the much publicized Morgan sisters, Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt and Thelma, Viscountess Furness. Among the best pictures passed over by the prize committee were Taxes, a desolate study of an abandoned farm by the former PWAP head Edward Bruce, and Jes Schlaikjer's The Cooling Well, a woman and child bending over a well head on a South Dakota farm on a hot summer evening...
...Backbone of International Business Machines Corp. is the famed Hollerith electric tabulator, but I. B. M. also does a brisk business in meat grinders and sausage slicers. Last week I. B. M. reported that earnings last year were $6,597,000 against...
Sour milk, grisly meat, and bounceable eggs, mentioned in the Lowell report, are absolutely inexcusable and more than sufficient to spoil and otherwise edible meal. Other objections, of somewhat wider application, may be noted...