Word: swine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensible loopholes. In a case of life-or-death, a Jew may eat anything. But no good Jew considers racketeering or carelessness a necessity. Healthiness of flesh is the basis of kashruth. Animals must have cloven hoofs and chew the cud (but no cud-chewing camels, no split-hoof swine). Fish must have both fins and scales (no sharks, no catfish, no shellfish). Birds must not prey. No creature that "goeth upon the belly" is kosher. Nor is one that dies a natural death (disease might have caused death). Because the Torah reads, "Thou shalt not seethe...
...want me to tell all?" said she. He did. She said she had closely observed the hogs on her father's farm and on the estate of her Lake Forest neighbor, Adman Albert D. Lasker. In addition she had studied a public library book on Swine Husbandry...
...centre of the arena at the Union Stock Yards. Things looked pretty much as usual. There were the familiar signs-THIS SHOW HAS BEEN DISINFECTED; the familiar sights & sounds-miles of red bunting, polo players in bright blue hats, stolid farmers' boys in overalls, svelte geldings, grunting swine, bleating sheep, sleepy steers annoyed at constant currying. Judge Biggar saw familiar faces among the exhibitors-23 year-old Elliott Brown of Rose Hill, Iowa, to whose steer he had awarded the grand prize three years ago; Gentleman Farmer Oakleigh Thorne of Dutchess County. N. Y., to whom he had awarded...
...shilling. Britons can get their furs more cheaply from the Continent. The British muskrat-fur industry, started after the War to employ ex-servicemen, has so languished that the animals have been turned loose upon the countryside. Though vegetarians, muskrats have been accused in Britain of devouring poultry and swine, of damming small streams and destroying the banks of the larger ones, of obstructing drainage and causing floods...
...become a coal miner to do that. Down into the pithead goes Danny among the sooty veterans who, when they stop to think, curse the darkness into which they have been born. There is a certain amount of camaraderie below the ground, but these undergroundhogs are mostly swine above...