Word: stewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago. Europe assumes that such was their achievement, ignoring Thomas Alva Edison. Invincibly bourgeois and perfectly satisfied with their large business in making still films and plates, the Brothers Lumière left the invention of the cinema to stew for years in a shambles of litigation. The basic invention, they considered, was that of George Eastman who in 1889 produced sheets of celluloid film with which motion pictures could be made and were bound to be made by someone as soon as the necessary machine was tinkered into shape. The idea was patented as early...
Futurist Marinetti is also deeply concerned with Futurist Food. When he commands his cook to stew a beefsteak in honey she stews beefsteak in honey, and he feels like a Raphael testing new combinations of pigments...
...that sliding down banisters and becoming embroiled in gutter fisticuffs is more fun than harp-twanging, she is the favorite household pet of everyone except Mrs. Parker. That she finally succeeds in winning over the entire cast is evidenced when at the end the whole family partakes of Mulligan stew-Ginger's favorite dish-in a garret room. "This," cries the elegant Mrs. Parker, "is the nuts...
...looking farmers. They had come from as far away as California, most of them in automobiles and "house-cars" (trailers) which they had parked in a camp far out on Massachusetts Avenue. For five days they crowded Washington Auditorium, fraternizing, listening to speeches, consuming hamburgers with gravy (5?), beef stew (20?), buttermilk (5?), alfalfa tea (5?) in the basement until it was rank with mixed smells. They were "Jehovah's Witnesses"-otherwise known as the International Bible Students Association, followers of Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford...
...present Princeton lineup is a fixture and there is about as much chance of another man crashing his way into the company of Dave Roberts, Hank Roberts, Stew Ranch, Pete Cook, Dev Warner, Captain Chevy Echeverria, Al Edwards, Killer Cooks, and Cox Peanut MacRae as the Princeton Varsity has of winning at Poughkeepsie (where it is not entered...