Word: pigged
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...scrimped a living in the '30s. " 'I'd rather be embalmed here than any place I know,' [Hirschfeld] said slowly. He turned up the collar of his trench coat and lit a cigarette, and in the flare of the match I saw that his tiny pig eyes were bright with tears...
...European cocktails spill on the oriental rugs from glasses negligently tilted or moved in too hasty gesticulation. There are lavish loads on two great buffet tables: platters of sliced veal and chicken, salads in splendid variety, tidy piles of caviar. In the center of one table is a roast pig (with a tomato in its mouth) which is gradually dissected by Soviet officers as the gay evening advances...
...such multitudes it takes the Civic Guards to hold them back. Down sits the duke and his friends to a mess of tomato soup, salmon, steak, eggs, chips, fish, jelly, pears, cream, coffee and cheese the like of which Buckingham Palace hadn't seen since Paddy weaned his pig, and all the while the guards are after restraining the onlookers...
...epigrams, limericks, etc. Recently readers were asked to play a game originated by Philosopher Bertrand Russell. On BBC's Brains Trust program (Britain's sprightly Town Meeting of the Air), he had humorously conjugated an "irregular verb" as "I am firm; you are obstinate; he is a pig-headed fool...
...part of his plan he got a job as a bartender at the quietly aristocratic Plaza, a hotel which was frequented by many rich and famous men of the day, among them Diamond Jim Brady-"an overstuffed pig, with his stickpins all in little animal shapes." O'Dwyer stayed there three years, studying shorthand in his spare time, brushing up on his Spanish, and yearning for the export business. Then came disillusionment; the export business wanted no part of a bartender...