Word: mutton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second Reading is carried, the Bill is handed to a committee where "they can put down an amendment 'to leave out "turkey," and insert "cold boiled mutton." ' ' Then comes the Report stage, where "when someone proposed that Ivy should have oysters as well as turtle soup, the Minister might say 'Well, I am all for that, but I am not sure if there are any oysters ... I will find...
...front of a meat shop in Cincinnati appeared a girl in a shepherdess costume, leading a lamb. The butcher put out a proud banner: "Mary had a little lamb, and so have we." The reason for a little lamb and mutton: slaughtering of lambs and sheep was down only 39% from the levels of a year ago ; beef and pork slaughtering was down more than...
...Barbara Mutton got things straightened out with London's gossipy Tatler, which had reported her married to Australian Playboy Freddie McEvoy and sharing the "super-suite at the Carlton." The correction: Miss Hutton was not married to McEvoy and was not at the Carlton; she "treated the matter most generously by accepting this apology, coupled with a substantial payment to the Maternity Ward of the Royal Northern Hospital by The Tatler...
...Sheep's Clothing. In Ottawa, a hungry patron stalked into a lunchroom on meatless Tuesday, thrust a struggling sheep on a popeyed waiter, barked: "Make me a mutton sandwich...
...lips, and allowed that maybe he could arrange to oblige. So Romajean came to sing in the choir of the Primitive Pentacostal Host Church, and Gudger figured that he had added another tender ewe lamb to his flock. Preacher Gudger's flock was largely old goat and tough mutton: Old Lady Clutiebelle Tippy, Thrash Mancil, Miz Pinniz Nice, Crave Tollett and a few dozen other crackers from the Orange County, Fla. flatwoods...