Word: mutton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown's School Days is a book more people have heard of than read. Its author, Thomas Hughes, was Englis has a mutton chop. Chief interests of his life were cricket and Utopia...
...members, scores of M.P.s squatted tailor-fashion. To eat during the secret session, which lasted more than seven hours, many had bought for sixpence each what were offered in the refreshment rooms as "Secret Sandwiches for Secret Sessions." These contained "macon"-the British wartime substitute for bacon-smoked mutton...
...This week will end registration of Britons for ration cards which will entitle them to buy bacon, butter, ham, sugar when the rationing comes. The Ministry of Food experimented meanwhile with bacon made from mutton, which the London Daily Express quickly labeled "macon." Minister of Food "Shakes" Morrison was pictured devouring a plateful and saying: "It tastes a lot better than it looks...
...Empires' raw materials, production means, tonnage. Thus, if the French Army needs 6-inch shells worse than the British need anti-aircraft shells, British factories will hustle the former instead of the latter. Or if Britain needs bottoms for Canadian wheat worse than France needs them for Algerian mutton, to Canada they shall...
...whistling the newest hit tune: God Bless You, Mr. Chamberlain. What consolation he could the Prime Minister took from echoes of this ditty and from the list of his distinguished gouty predecessors: Derby, Disraeli, Palmerston, Melbourne, Canning, the Pitts.-Several of these statesmen courted gout by stuffing themselves with mutton chops and port. But hard-working Neville Chamberlain is no high liver. Said his sympathetic friends: his trouble was "poor man's gout," a hereditary chronic disease (his father, Joseph Chamberlain, had it) which may torment even teetotalers...