Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slice of cold boiled fish topped with mayonnaise...
Five years ago numbers of British and U. S. financiers decided that Abdul the Damned's heirs had a good case in international law. With the understanding that they were to receive a fat slice of any funds paid to Abdul's heirs, they successively organized three corporations to push the legal battle: Anglo-Hellenic Corp., succeeded by Valideh Trust, Ltd., and finally Aegean Financial Trust. † Not satisfied with last week's 50 millions from Greece, officials of the Aegean Financial Trust announced that they had every hope of obtaining an additional billion for their clients...
...said that the only certain things in the world are death and taxes. It is said also that college is either a slice of or a preparation for life, so instead of death and taxes, Harvard has term bills and examinations. The latter come at various unpleasant intervals; the former are due upon the thirtieth of several months...
...house cat little by little drove the pigeons up into a corner. The pigeons became dazed, and fell down, and then each cat seized a bird and carried it into the house uninjured. The house keeper took the pigeons from the cats, and in return for them gave a slice of beef or mutton and milk to each cat. The pigeons were taken into a little side room, and after they had eaten some maize and drunk water, they flew out of the window none the worse for their handling by the cats. The fact was that neither cat liked...
...Give me a better slice...