Word: roast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fish for dinner, the result is appalling. That was another thing that was bound to threw a nine off its stride. They say that you could get cooked food but it consisted of fish heads with the eye-balls served up as a delicacy. Even roast prime ribs of beef an just would have been welcome...
...this Reader many owe their knowledge of the fact that the name of Abou Ben Adhem "led all the rest." Now, with Caroline Norton, one reads about the "soldiers of the Legion" who "lay dying in Algiers," and then he turns to Charles Lamb's "Dissertation on Roast Pig." How many thousands of youngsters have been fired by Webster's "Supposed Speech of John Adams" and how many have laughed over Hawthorne's "Rill from the Town Pump...
...Louis was rushed another Monocoupe. In it the Lindberghs took off again. Over western Oklahoma the motor quit. The Lindberghs landed in a cornfield. Forced to "lay over" pending repairs, they went to a nearby farm house where Anne Lindbergh donned an apron, helped Mrs. Homer Aitkens cook roast beef & mashed potatoes. Said Farmer Aitkens afterward: "That fellow didn't talk much, but he sure packed away the victuals. . . . He was just as fine as could be until some danged girl started pestering him for a picture...
Behold the stomach: crammed from every dish, The tomb of boiled and roast and flesh and fish, Where bile and wind, and phlegm and acid jar, And all the man is one intestine...
...Recently the Tokyo Miyako Shimbun gained access to bundles of examination papers of students trying for jobs in Manchukuo with the Ministry of Railways. Samples: 1) Marconi. The Crown Prince of Ethiopia; the President of France; roast hog. 2) Hindenburg. The Premier of Denmark; Capital of Germany; a business quarter in England; an Australian port where woolen is exported. 3) Movement against cooperative societies. The birth control movement as advocated by Sanger...