Word: mutton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...virtually non-existent commercially, brings $1.50 a lb., and New York City alone would have consumed 3,000 elk carcasses last autumn had they been available. Laboratory tests show that elk flesh has a third more nerve and energy-building qualities, a third less fattening qualities, than beef, mutton or pork...
...himself as a supporter of Mr. Davis. So the two are on good terms, although Mr. Davis is a proponent of the League of Nations and Mr. Reed a violent opponent. At Bunceton. Next day, there was a great barbecue; 13,000 pounds of beef, 3,000 pounds of mutton and 14,000 wa- termelons-for 50,000 people at the farm of Dr. Arthur W. Nelson, Democratic nominee for Governor of Missouri. Some 50,000 people attended, and some went hungry. Mr. Davis was properly provisioned and then spoke: "Privilege creeps like a viper into the administrative chambers...
...style, in fact, is colored with a richness of literary allusion. For instance: "Do you remember Joe, the fat boy at whom Mr. Wardle was always shouting 'Joe! Damn that boy, he's asleep again'? Joe had an overpowering predilection for meat pies and mutton and roast beef. He is a humorous character, in fiction. In real life, he would be Tragedy personified, because Joe was the victim of chronic poisoning...
Second Situation. It appeared that the prospect for an international conference was as dead as mutton when, a few minutes before its demise, Premier Poincaré of France suggested (through the Reparations Commission) the formation of two committees of experts from representatives of the Allied Powers and unofficial representatives from the U. S. All international obstacles having been removed and at least temporary unanimity having been established between the Allies, Louis Barthou, Chairman of the Reparations Commission, invited the various financial and economic experts from the interested European countries and the U. S. to become members of the two committees...
...POTTERS-A salty, amusing picture of an American family being saved from its own priceless mutton-headed ways...