Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Ellery Sweet, Denver Democrat, onetime (1923-25) Governor of Colorado. Reason: Prohibition...
...good thing we did not gratify Dr. Butler's aspirations, or rather jack-aspirations, and nominate him for President. He apparently would not uphold the Constitution and would not enforce the law. . . . We should remember that Dr. Nicholas Money Butler was the campaign collector for the not too sweet-smelling Harding Administration and that he may be following some of his oil friends into the Tammany-cratic party. Dr. Butler was not called the little butler of the rich for nothing. On the whole it would seem that Dr. Butler and Mr. Raskob are imposing personalities, but only...
When the fountain is both sweet and bitter...
...Just a sweet little green island set in the blue waters of the Irish Sea, with its rolling hills and slumbrous glens, full of gorse and heather and fern; three or four quaint little fishing ports and one larger town devoted to the joyous and rather rollicking life of the visiting industry...
Testimony indicates that unorthodox foods can be made appetizing. Snake and chicken are much alike.* Like white meat of chicken too are frog legs. Horse meat is sweet, dog steaks flat. Rat and cat are little different from tame rabbit. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste, are tough to chew. Human flesh is sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earthworms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness...