Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. supper begins promptly at 3:10 p. m. Reason: the institution is so overcrowded that eating must start early to get the last convict fed before bedtime. To remedy this and many another condition of convict-herding, which goaded U. S. prisoners to riotous fury last year, the House of Representatives last week approved a batch of bills to start President Hoover's $7,000,000 prison reform program. Among other things they provided...
...Wingshooting, Cont." (Letters, Dec. 30, p. 4). "The gun is aimed directly at the object in flight, firing as the barrel is moving with the bird." Wrong and right. It is necessary to both lead and follow through, or the duck supper will be a pork roast...