Word: munch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortune. With this publicity Marilyn overnight becomes Manhattan's most notorious and highly paid night-club entertainer. Her career leads her to England, to Charles who has grown blase and selfish, and eventually on a blizzardy night back to the Manhattan bench where she and Peter contentedly munch more popcorn...
...Kansas, farmers last week were selling 200,000 head of cattle to the Government before they died on the hoof from thirst. In some places farmers drove their livestock into woodlots and cut down trees to give them leaves to munch. Travelers through southwestern Kansas reported what they mistook for a new oil boom. Everywhere drilling crews were working night and day driving wells for water...
...flock was hardly out of Paris last week when many among them began to munch bananas, eggs, chocolate, harlequins which they produced from the pockets of their sleeveless sweaters. At meal stops they are handed knapsacks of food & drink to consume en route. The Tour de France is marked by few grisly spills such as punctuate the Madison Square Garden grinds. As a rule the riders bowl along in a good-humored cluster, sprint near the end of the run for the daily prize money. On the windy seacoasts they take turns riding on the windward side of the pack...
Farmers in eastern Illinois quit working their powdery fields. Around Rock Island the oat crop was conceded to be destroyed and cattle were let in to munch on what was left. Five hundred farmers in three Wisconsin counties rounded up 26,000 head of half starved cattle, loaded them on stock cars, shipped them north to rented fields in the Lake Superior region. At Kansas City, George E. Farrell of AAA estimated that the wheat crop was being abandoned at the rate of 1,000,000 bu. a day, that growers were losing $1,000,000 daily. On the Chicago...
...nationalism, the charitable support of colonial possessions, however Christian, must be swept away. Philippine motes are ocularly harmless compared with the beam of depression. The McDuffie Bill remains a rough-hewn measure, but, even if Congress insists on eating its cake and having it too, there's time to munch the crumbs later. JUDAS...