Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machine guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition into the National, poured back a withering, effective fire. Soldiers who tried to rush the hotel were dropped in their tracks by sharpshooting officers, died writhing, groaning and gushing blood upon the grass. Fascinated by this sight was a U. S. meat-packing executive, Robert G. Lotspiech, Swift & Co.'s assistant sales manager in Havana. As he watched from the eleventh floor terrace of the nearby Lopez Serrano Apartments, a stray bullet drilled him through the heart...
...left cheekbone. And over his eyes the accumulation of scar tissue, where his brows had been opened and stitched and healed repeatedly, projected like eaves. His belly was still rather flat, but it flapped and fluttered like a loose drumhead and there was a band of slack-meat over the top of his trunks." The piece ended with what none of Pegler's readers could misconstrue as an apology for sentiment: "But I am bracing up now. I will be all right in a minute. I guess I am just an old crybaby. But a fellow was saying...
...specimens for special experiments but the majority are cared for in a special animal farm that requires several attendants to operate. One doctor receives 100 mice every week for pneumonia injections, while another doctor administers yellow fever germs to 25 monkeys each week. About 2500 pounds of horse meat is used each week for food for the animals...
...which would seem to recall that "Ei" placard that we chortled over the other day. Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell are proudly responsible. "We are pleased to announce," they blare, "that our popular stews now contain 50 per cent more meat, in addition to many other good vegetables...
Some people find the cricket's song strangely soothing. To other people the insect is an unredeemed pest. Besides making a noise, which it hushes when irate insomniacs turn on lights to search it out, the cricket eats clothes, rugs, furniture, meat, bread, vegetables...