Word: swill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late as 10 o'clock in the evening readdressing letters; and so great is the desire of the public for information that whenever there is a light burning in the evening from the window of our office, people rap at it in the vain hope that maybe we swill satisfy their desires...
...this were not sufficiently distracting from Reparations, the Agent General was beamingly conducted through the Chancellor's Piggery (TIME. Oct. 22). where fat, nuzzling porkers are stuffed with choicest swill for prize winning purposes. From a source close to Mr. Gilbert it was reported that the grave problems in hand were not seriously attacked until he and Chancellor Churchill went up to London for a formal conference with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
...contemplate what the effect of Dr. Hoick's words must be upon the few remaining Fletcherites. Unaccustomed to normal mastication, these fastidious trenchermen will swill too much and too abruptly and die off in short order. Not so John D. Rockefeller who, unmoved by fads and always conservative, will continue to chew his food soberly and slowly in a modified adaptation of Horace Fletcher's preposterous method...
...last week caught the hiccups. For three nights its pen, in Birmingham, Ala., echoed with a silly incessant guffaw. Owner of the pig, one Joseph St. George, deprived of sleep, surveyed his eccentric porker. He ordered a large plate of "swill" to be brought. This the pig ate greedily and continued hiccupping. Mr. St. George whacked the pig's back with a trowel; still the idiotic grunts continued. Then Mr. St. George soaked the pig with ice cold water; no cure. At last Joseph St. George came with a little perfumed sponge which he pushed against...
Brunhilde, who died recently from gorging incontinently the swill lavished upon her by a grateful municipality, was thus honored and immortalized in bronze last week...