Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youngest of eight children. His father was a cantor. First thing he remembers is lying on a blanket on the side of a road while his home and half the village burned to the ground. The family drifted to New York where Father Baline got irregular work certifying meat for kosher butcher shops. He died when "Izzy" was eight. Four sisters went on doing bead work in an East Side basement home. An older brother worked in a sweat shop. For two years "Izzy" went to public school, sold newspapers on the side. But on Saturday nights he was rankled...
...Manhattan's Washington Market unemployed artists found a vacant meat stall, started an art sale. When market patrons showed interest only in one drawing, a nudist colony at play, the artists veiled the picture, sold peeps at a penny apiece. Market Director Aloysius Mallo appeared, took one perquisite peek popped: "Put that away or I'll put you out. That's too hot for my customers, I'll tell the world...
...schooling had extended only up to the third grade; he had been a cabin boy and a music hall singer; his wife was an actress whom he married when she was 14; and he owned a sausage factory in California. Ordinarily such a candidate ought to be sausage meat for Mr. Gerry. But this opponent could not be ignored for his political talents were famed and he was known to the world as Eddie Dowling. Mr. Dowling-Goucher's career is more remarkable than Mr. Gerry's. It began as a choir boy in Providence. It went...
...Danes' coats so glossy?" a friend asked him. Mr. Goff replied, "Let me feed your dogs for a few weeks and I'll guarantee their coats will improve." With his wife's kitchen knives, his baby's weighing scales, his gardener and $15 worth of meat, he retired to his garage. The gardener helped chop the meat and Mr. Goff took it around to neighbors' kennels. Their tongues and their dogs' coats were all the advertising he needed. By last week Mr. Goff was occupying a two-story brick building in leafy Ardmore, paying...
...Great Dane or setter wolfs several per day. Puppies and invalids, which need more food oftener, are served daily by the "Puppy Special." The new plant at Oakmont has been made ultra-sanitary, equipped with cutting, cooking, packing, snipping and reception rooms, an office for a government meat inspector. It will send complete menus (except skimmed milk) to all branches. Caterer Goff, whose New York and Boston representatives are both in the Social Register, values his business...