Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indianapolis last week Garbage Collector Noah Bowman reported one day's take: one unopened 24-lb. sack of flour, one whole cantaloupe, half a chicken, an unopened loaf of bread, an 8-lb. slab of bacon. Worst offenders: childless couples, who cut two pieces out of a pie and discard the rest. Worst periods: after holidays...
Buckwheat is highly suspect these days in Britain because it is off the ration and fetches the highest grain price as a scarce and valuable food for poultry, pigs and cattle. At the current price level (80 shillings per 56-lb. sack), Dennis had nearly ?3,000 worth in his 20-acre field. He could not use it all for his 200 chickens and herd of pigs. Was he flouting the County Agricultural Committee's orders so that he could sell the buckwheat in the black market...
...clever Tom Clinch, while the rabble was bawling, Rode stately through Holborn to die at his calling, He stopt at the George for a bottle of sack, And promis'd to pay for it when he came back...
...much easier to keep than me own." He answered a personal question that had been on many a plain citizen's mind. How was it in that long judicial wig, in the summer? The Lord Chancellor's reply for history: "Very uncomfortable." And ditto for the sack of wool which tradition makes...
...willy-nilly, among her eager little friends, embarrassed by her embittered swain (Johnny Sands), and teased at every turn by Miss Loy's insufferably smug lover, Rudy Vallee. Worse still, of course, he falls for the judge. Good fun: Grant and Vallee competing grimly before their ladyloves in sack races, three-legged races and such other corruptions of sport as picnics are apt to inspire...