Word: munching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Magee, Manhattan coal and railroad tycoon, became aware, as he opened his mouth to munch a meal last week that three of his front teeth were missing. Supposing that he had left them somewhere about his house, he conducted a search, but while doing so, he became aware of sharp stomach pain. His suspicions were soon confirmed by an X-ray photograph. He had swallowed his three front teeth. Still calm, John Magee announced with a vacant grin, his intention of going to Newport...
Diabetics who must munch bran rolls, bran biscuits, bran cookies, bran bread, were cheered to learn last week that a fine white cracker has been prepared for their delectation. In appearance like the simple soda cracker, this delicacy is the result of years of patient experimenting by the departments of Physiological Chemistry, of Food and Cookery in Teachers College, Columbia University. The basis of the biscuit is intarvin, a specially constructed fat discovered by Dr. Max Kahn, of the College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1923. Dr. William John Gies of the Department of Biological Chemistry at Teachers College, directed experiments...
...then started the project of a supplementary series of concerts of popular character to suit the warmer season. They were modelled after the "Bilse" Concerts of Berlin, the formal rows of seats and tables were removed and tables were so installed so that one might sip wine or beer, munch a sandwich or smoke, while listening to a waltz of Strauss or a march of Sousa...
There is no more esteemed confection in the Executive Department of the Government than the word economy. It rolls with a quiver of delight on the tongue of the President. It rolls and rolls again on the tongue of the Director of the Budget. The Cabinet munch it at their meetings. Only last week, Secretary Hoover offered the dainty morsel again for the President's tasting in the annual report of the Department of Commerce...
...Munch, Danish delegate to the League, in announcing this step, merely avowed that armaments are useless to small nations, for they are allowed to use them only as the pawns of great powers. He argued that disputes between small nations must henceforth be settled by round table discussions or by arbitration between the backers of the midget countries. If not, their Lilliputian quarrels will again serve as pretexts for gigantic struggles whose real sources lie deep in the persistent rivalries of the great powers...