Word: swine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the Department of Agriculture reported that total value of U. S. farm livestock at the year end was $3,100,000,000 as against $2,876,000,000 the year before. Yet total number of cattle dropped 7,600,000 during the year to 60,000,000; swine dropped 20,000,000 to 37,000,000; sheep and lambs dropped...
...Commons' gallery crying "down with the new unemployment act!" earnest, horn-spectacled Glasgow Laborite George Buchanan boomed: "The Prime Minister is a low, dirty cur who ought to be horsewhipped and slung out of public life! The Prime Minister is a mountebank! He is worse. He is a swine! I have nothing to say about the Minister of Labor for he is a son of Lord Derby and was born in another stratum. But the Prime Minister grew into power on the pennies of the poor people. He used to fight for the unemployed but now that...
...their cattle before they were forced to join collective farms and "share everything" (TIME, July 14, 1930). Over a third of all Soviet cattle were thus massacred or exported before Stalin realized his mistake, eased his pressure. Today, because pigs multiply faster than cattle, Soviet collectives are frantically breeding swine. Last week President Kalinin's nearest approach to admitting Dictator Stalin's mistake came when he observed: "The heavy bread consumption we are now experiencing indicates weakness in our livestock raising. However, pigs take the place of bread very well...
...show's cattle department directorate, Dutchess County's Oakleigh Thome to see what his Eastern Aberdeen Anguses would do this year. Daily from Saturday to Saturday 35,000 visitors swarmed up & down the Temple's broad cement ramps, past rows & rows of freshly curried swine, sheep, steers, beef cows, rows & rows of the cream of the corn crops, prime kernels of wheat, oats. rye, barley...
...appeal to the better instincts of the German people is, in French ideology, very like casting pearls before swine. The amenities of international relations demand the attempt, but the sons of Marianne place no faith in its success. Rhetoric may be useful, but only when supported by bayonets. Adroitly M. Laval mentioned Italy and, in the next paragraph, Austria. Then followed a few quiet words in reference to Russia, along with a declaration of the peace-loving, disinterested attitude of France. Very subtly, the foreign minister concluded: "All those who are interested in the Eastern pact have been or will...