Word: mincemeat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This month state-fair boards across the U.S. are handing out prize money to brush-and-chisel wielders as well as to cattle breeders and mincemeat experts. In most states painting and sculpture are displayed with the poultry, corn and hogs that sunburned fair visitors take...
When he was Governor General of Poland, Hans Frank remarked: "For all I care, mincemeat can be made out of the Poles...
Back in the dock, Frank sighed: "I had to get this off my chest. I'll sleep better for it." Then the man who thought that Poles were good enough for mincemeat returned to his Bible, and to his cherished picture of St. Florian, an officer of the Roman occupation force along the Danube, who was martyred in A.D. 304, and who became a patron saint of Poland...
...traditionally confined to austere announcements of time, place and contestants. Up came the Yankees with ads in the best soap-opera style. Sample: "Can Washington's famous 'knucklebal' pitchers stop what experts call the sluggingest team in the League? Or will Di Maggio, Keller & Co. make mincemeat of the Senators' pitching staff? Come out to the ball game...
...words like cold and hunger had a remote and dimly remembered sound. Thanksgiving turkeys arrived in market by the carload; to get more mincemeat on the holiday table, OPA raised the ceiling price 2? a pound. Shoe rationing was over; department stores were taking orders for Christmas nylons...