Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Still rationed by card and to be rationed until further notice throughout Russia are meat, potatoes, tea and such luxuries as butter, which at times has been classed in the Soviet Union as a medicine, available only on doctor's prescription. Because Russia has again had a bumper wheat crop, Premier Molotov talked exclusively about that, said nothing of the ruthless Stalin tactics which caused desperate peasants to massacre their cattle and saddled Russia with a meat shortage which will endure for decades...
Married, Nancy Traylor, 21, daughter of the late Chicago Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor; and Nathan B. Swift, 23, of Chicago's meat-packing Swifts; in Chicago...
...morning her crew spied a small skiff hauled high on the rocks of the shore. Swinging closer they saw a tall pole and fluttering from it a few limp rags. On shore they found a dead seal with strips of flesh hacked from it, a few bits of iguana meat, and two human corpses...
...used to balance two broiled lamb chops on my wife's shoulders, and then by observing the movement of tiny shadows produced by the accident of the meat...while the sun was setting, I was...able to attain images sufficiently lucid and appetizing for exhibition in New York...
...story of a troupe of serious actors who completely demoralize a seaside resort, accustomed to nothing but low comedy, with stark selections from Chekhov, Strindberg, Ibsen, Turgenev. After a fortnight, murder and melancholy break out all over the impressionable community. After seeing The Father, the local butcher throws a meat ax at his wife. After seeing An Enemy of the People, the local politico votes against the Government and precipitates a national election. The proprietor of the play pavilion saves the situation by firing the lugubrious Thespians and hiring a circus...