Word: stewpot
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Well-Heeled Swans. A few of the beasts lacked friends. From German Tiergarten many a quadruped had vanished into a stewpot. In Vienna a dozen Schonbrunn Zoo camels, whose colorful history included careers in a traveling circus, and a stretch with the Russian Army as gun carriers, ended up as steaks. But in Malmo, Sweden, a bank account established in 1941 by bird-loving citizens to cover the needs of visiting swans had grown to 4,000 kroner (over...
...When plump little Kasha came trotting by one day, Walter decided to bash her on the head with a crowbar. When Betty's German gardener found Kasha's body in the back of Walter's shop, he notified the MPs. Kasha died without going to the stewpot, but Walter landed in jail nonetheless. Ten days later a military court found him guilty and sentenced him to one month in prison. But the court's president, young ex-Lieut. Fred Tappan, promptly suspended sentence. "I am not going to send a hungry man to jail for killing...
...humor strung on the thread of his unique personality. Chaplin cinemaddicts will recognize with tears of joy two famed scenes: trapped by a blizzard in a lonely mountain cabin with a friendly prospector named Big Jim (Mack Swain), Charlie hopefully removes a shoe and places it in the stewpot. Tenderly basting the foul boot with its own juices, he nurses it along to Big Jim's bursting point. "Not quite done yet," soothes the Little Fellow. "Give it two more minutes." He serves it up with a shoestring for potatoes, munches it contentedly...
...coop which trapped each hen and kept her there until he let her out and scored an egg or a blank. At year's end his flock's batting average was only about 65 eggs a year per hen, about the U. S. average. Into the stewpot went hens who didn't make the laying grade. Up went the batting average of Farmer Rice's flock...