Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador Davis phrased this decision in an immensely skillful double negative to weave between the hopes of Europe and the fears of Congress. The U. S. did not promise to act with Europe to maintain peace. It promised that it would refrain from hindering the actions of others. The meat of the Davis speech lay in its middle. Excerpts...
...Steel will, with trick lighting effects, dazzle spectators by apparently belching molten metal out of a blast furnace in a tower 40 ft. high. Others have erected working models: oil industry, a miniature refinery. Still others have put up huge dioramas (three-dimensional picture-models) : with three such the meat industry will show all that happens to beef on its way from cattle range to kitchen range...
...HENRY MORGAN-W. Adolphe Roberts-Covici, Friede ($3). Buccaneers were originally harmless Caribbean creatures, so named from their hunter's trade of smoking meat on a boucan (grid), but that was before Henry Morgan became their Admiral-in-Chief. By that time (1667) they had found other, more dangerous fish to fry; some of them were no better than pirates. In Morgan's early career he was not much better himself: he served a bloody apprenticeship against the Spaniards in Hispaniola and Granada, quitted himself so like a buccaneer that he was elected Admiral. Jamaica's Governor...
...awoke to find murder in their midst. Sometime during the night Agnes Boeing Ilsley, widow of a well- to-do Wisconsin banker, had been brutally done to death in bed at her house in Middleburg. Also killed was her elderly white maid Mina Buckner. A butcher with a meat cleaver could not have done a gorier job. Nothing was stolen...
...sharks, no catfish, no shellfish). Birds must not prey. No creature that "goeth upon the belly" is kosher. Nor is one that dies a natural death (disease might have caused death). Because the Torah reads, "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk," kashruth separates meat and milk dishes. Anything cooked with animal fats is "meaty"; anything in butter or milk is "milky." Milky and meaty may not be served at the same meal. The housewife must keep two complete sets of dishes and utensils. Salting (melihah) of meat to remove all blood is a final...