Word: stew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brewster's story, "The Chimney", featured on the cover, demands more attention than its slightness would seem to warrant. Although the writer has managed to introduce, in three pages, a leering wink, beef-stew, fornication, apple-pie, a bastard child, a curly maple bed, a drunken farmer, and twins, the result hardly justifies the material. It is only fair to add, however, that one of the twins died. In "Hero-Worship", Mr. Coolidge loosely strings together four anecdotes, told in a straightforward manner that redeems them from what might become fatuity in less steady hands. This is followed...
Finally I am indebted to Romilly's Western Pacific and New Zealand for a receipt for preparing human brains. The natives of New Zealand were accustomed to stew the brains in "Sak-Sak," a concoction of sago and cocoa. The dish was "pronounced delicious by white men who had partaken...
...such a thing-to descend from his rostrum, divested of the editorial "we" and its ulterior formality. Most big-city editors would have "played" the streetcar strike to sell their papers, or simply viewed it in irritated detachment with no thought but that every one concerned must "stew in his own juice." The editors of the New York Times and Herald-Tribune and World and Journal and Daily News and Mirror and Post did not march anywhere when Manhattan was suffering a July subway strike. But in the South they have not such formal ideas about who is entitled...
...Long Island duck, mixed with one can of peas and one pint of olives, to be cooked into a brown stew and served with dumplings...
...Workers of America with the same abandon that William the Absolute destroyed the treaty which protected the neutrality of Belgium. Mr. Hammond, by his vain mutterings, has brought the present controversy into the realm of political equations. By the same token he has mixed 'the devil's stew for the forthcoming Congress to sup." From Hazelton, Pa., it was reported that rats in schoolhouses were annoying women and girls. The explanation: when mules are taken from the mines, rats are deprived of grain and consequently come to the surface...