Word: pork
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object was to give every Deputy a chance to speak for at least half a day on the budget clauses particularly interesting to his constituents. It was a grand old system-forensics in the reverberant pork barrel...
...Unborn lamb, spitted and braised over an open fire, is a nomadic delicacy, called by Russians Shashlik, by Armenians Shlsh-Kebab. The dish served openly by U. S. Russian and Armenian restaurateurs is of lamb several days old, comparatively tough chewing. †When the prices of beef, pork, and lamb become high, as during and immediately following the War, the U. S. begins to eat horse meat. Last year more than 100,000 U. S. horses were slaughtered, chiefly for the export market. **Associated in the research were Solomon Augustus Hatfield, Assistant Professor of Medicine, and George Irving Nelson, researcher...
...courts thronged with youth." Deer-foot Farms are located in Southborough, and when the wind is in the right quarter Third Formers, whose dormitory faces East, are made well aware of their late benefactor's sausage plant.* So that St. Mark's boys may be further pork-conscious, each year on Founder's Day suckling pig is served. Eight or ten times in the school year Headmaster Thayer leaves school to marry his alumni. Imposing is his record at socialite weddings, for loyal St. Mark's grooms will have no other cleric. Literate St. Marksmen remember...
...Americanisms to be despised? Henry Louis Mencken, defining them, says "The English seldom devise anything as pungent as rubberneck, ticket-scalper, lameduck, pork-barrel, bootlegger, steamroller (in its political sense). Such exhilarating novelties are produced in the U. S. every day, and large numbers of them come into universal use, and gradually take on literary dignity. They are opposed violently, but they prevail...
Uglier grew the crowd. "We want no underfed beauty queens here!" cried a roughster. "Let's make her eat some pork!" As the rowdies rushed, even saucy Magda Dimitrescu became frightened, seized Lisl Goldarbeiter by the wrist, dragged her through a baggage room and out by a back alley to sanctuary in the Bucharest Rumanian Orthodox Cathedral...