Word: swine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bedded and shown on the acres and acres of floor space in the International Amphitheatre at Chicago's stockyards were 13,340 combed, brushed, manicured, lowing, squealing, braying, baaing cattle, horses, sheep, swine. Canadian exhibitors were there in force, World War II having canceled out their Royal Winter Fair in Toronto...
...Churchill-that bloated swine-spouts through his dirty teeth that in the last week no English ship has been molested by German submarines? He does, indeed...
...Western civilization, because this nation is composed of organic blends which, for some unknown genetic reasons, combine marvelous understanding of mechanical techniques with utter obtusity in human relations, and which are of a suggestibility so extreme that they are more easily possessed by devils than were the Gadarene swine...
Said Vegetarian George Bernard Shaw, 82: "When I am dead my funeral will be followed by herds of oxen, sheep, swine, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling menagerie of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honour of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures...
...fear of trichinosis but simple tabu was responsible for ancient Jewish laws against eating pork. Reason behind the tabu, say modern anthropologists, was that nomadic Jewish tribes could not keep swine, which are "sedentary" animals...