Word: swill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swill-grubbing beast has a dirtier mouth than man. Such is the humiliating opinion offered in last week's Journal of the American Dental Association by the University of Pennsylvania's Dentist Leonard Rosenthal and colleagues. They based their opinion on extensive researches, mostly at Philadelphia's zoo. They examined the saliva of one hippopotamus, two lions, one baboon, two elephants, one rhinoceros, 28 pigs, two horses, two chimpanzees, 50 dogs, eight cats...
...against dumping garbage into U. S. waters. Around 10 o'clock, as he eased his motor sampan under the overhanging stern of the Dollar Steamship Lines steamer, President Coolidge, he obtained first-hand evidence. A Chinese mess boy leaned over the rail and dumped a pail of swill, "cabbage, orange peel, celery, tea leaves and water," squarely on Inspector Arthur's head...
Dorothy Thompson, Eddie Cantor, and Governor-elect Leverett Saltonstall '14 swill speak in Sanders Theatre tomorrow night a 8 o'clock at a mass meeting of college students in the Boston area who are interested in the German refuges problem...
...voters of Kentucky, of course, disdained all swill trough promises. They rose even above personalities, in which the grinning, song-singing, slaphappy, 40-year-old Governor had a distinct edge over the slow-footed, slow-witted, 60-year-old drayhorse Senator. While "Happy" Chandler sang There's a Gold Mine in the Sky, voters remembered the plea of Franklin Roosevelt, author of all their benefits, to send back to the Senate his dear, distinguished colleague Mr. Barkley...
...next two week swill find a competition between the eight clubs that chalked up the highest rating in the qualifying rounds last term, to see which ones will argue out the semi-finals next term. The finals will follow in the spring...