Word: morsel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other far-flung colonies dominated by Great Britain? On a basis of equal representation of population groups. Great Britain and her dependencies would contribute to the world federation something like one-fourth of the population, the greater part of which is not English. That is a great morsel for a union of countries in which, for example, Finland and Switzerland and Greece are to have in some respects an equal status with Great Britain. Furthermore, the question of foreign trade and tariffs is one in which the interests of Great Britain have for the last hundred years been very different...
...Vanderbilt, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Mr. & Mrs. Conde Nast, Mr. & Mrs. Adolph Zukor, Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Grab and the Sheriff of New York County. Maitre d'Hotel Rene Black, "Master of Forty Sauces," hovered majestically. Quick was the Press to pick up this dining place as a likely morsel for public fun. Its menu prices were broadcast: chicken okra soup 65?, baked lobster thermidor $2, lamb stew $1.70, royal squab en crapaudine, $2.75, baked potato 450, coffee 45?, demi tasse 50?. Jokesters insisted that the park air was still free and that the poor did not have...
...horse meat is sold. A stuffed horse head hangs over the doorway, to distinguish them from "chacuteries" (pork shops) where a pig's head holds the place of honor. Nor is horse meat particularly unpalatable. A little tough, perhaps, and not very tasty, yet between a relatively succulent morsel of horse and a comparatively gristly portion of cow there is not so marked a difference. As for dogs, they are fond of horse meat, ground up and mixed with cereal. In Rockford, Ill., Chappel Co. has a large factory devoted entirely to horses that are going to the dogs...
...road tar is a morsel which children like to chew. Tar contains dirt, of course, and poisons with terrific names like creosote, benzene, cyclohexane, anthracene, dianthracene, toluene, pyridine, amylene, methyl cyanide, carbon bisulphide. Tar-chewing children should be warned by the disaster which overtook a man tarring an Ohio road. As a case of industrial toxicology, the American Medical Association considered it important enough to publish in its Journal...
Caprice. "Life is so much easier," says the dyspeptic but incorrigibly playful Albert Von Echardt, "when you have a great many ties to choose from." He communicated this illuminating morsel of information to his bastard son, poetic and bumptious youth of 16, whom he was meeting for the first time. Albert had in fact been unaware of his child's existence until its mother, a somewhat charming though intensely idealistic creature, whom he had once betrayed and since forgotten, visited him. The purpose of her visit was to ask that Robert be permitted to live with his father...