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...mounting. It was not a uniform pressure; only managers with defense orders felt it seriously, bankers and salesmen still got to the club or the first tee on time. But all over the U. S., high-pressure spots were multiplying. Presidents and general managers canceled trips to Palm Beach, ate lunch and dinner at their desks. Wives fretted. Doctors warned. But still U. S. businessmen came early and left late...
Resourceful, ruthless and self-assured, Goya rode the crest of this cloacal flood. A ram-headed man of enormous appetites, he ate himself to the verge of apoplexy, begot 20 legitimate children (only one survived the plague-ridden rigors of Spanish life), became the lover of the beautiful and powerful Duchess of Alba, a favorite of the harlot Queen, the most sought-after society portraitist of his time...
...party. Even then Joyce was suffering a good deal of pain. For ten or twelve years he had had a mysterious intestinal ailment, which did not trouble him as long as life went smoothly, caused him agony when life did not. During the last year, friends claim, Joyce "ate practically nothing...
...requesting more power, fussing about the Legislature as he has for two years, and saluting the heroes of The Alamo as he does well and often in song and speech- but the barbecue that came after it was the biggest feed in Texas history. The Governor's guests ate 15 steers, one buffalo, several calves and sheep (in all 17,000 lb. of dressed meat) and 12,800 wieners. They also downed 3,200 loaves of bread, 6,500 buns, 1,250 lb. of onions, half a ton of potato chips, 6,000 sour pickles, 500 Ib. of cheese...
...guard with revolver at the entrance, the sergeant wriggled into the cave, shooting. Out crawled the Italians, among them Francesco Argentina, erstwhile commander of Sidi Barrani, eleventh Italian general to be captured in the British attack on Libya. For three days the general went on a hunger strike, then ate, wailed: "For all I care about this desert, you can have it! I myself am a poet...