Word: beefed
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...read aloud a newspaper article, while an electric bell kept ringing so that nobody could hear what he said." A later meeting was delightedly reported by Dadaist Tzara: "For the first time in the history of the world, people threw at us not onlv eggs, vegetables and pennies, but beef-steaks as well. It was a very huge suecess." They will sniff at the mock-heroic episode in which Malcolm Cowley smote a Paris cafe proprietor for Art's sake, thus gathering a two-fisted reputation that later scared bookish Critic Ernest Boyd. Nor will they be moved...
...with the pretensions of a gentleman. His wife's buxomness had hardened into armor plate. Tilly, who died young, became the family saint. Cora married a doctor, went to London. Meg simmered and soured into spinsterhood. Ethel, the best of the lot, rushed into marriage with a beef-eating young naval officer. Anemic Bertram got a job in India, toyed with mysticism and was homesick. As they grew into pre-War maturity they all became hopelessly more & more the same thing...
...green letters were the words CANINE CATERING CO. above a small green Scottie. At each stop a gauntleted, high-booted young man hopped out with a package. As he walked back to the kitchen there rose a great barking & scratching. In the package was a luscious dog dinner - fresh beef of lamb, cleaned of fat & gristle, cubed for bolting, soaked in a broth of vegetable vitamin juices, garnished with shredded lettuce or cabbage wrapped in waxed paper and served up on a papier mache platter. Son of a socialite Washington insurance broker, Leroy Goff Jr. is 30, small, light-haired...
...late hour last night it was learned that five Freshmen from Hollis Hall had gone to Stillman and many others were in the throes of disconcerting regurgitation due to the strange properties of the beef steak served for lunch. It was not deemed advisable to enquire at the other dormitories...
...year since he clipped a coleta in his hair and stepped into the ring. Finally the gathering broke up and Antonio Sanchez walked home to save money. Near the central market he heard shouts and a great splintering of wood. Mad as a bullring champion was a snorting beef bull that had escaped from a slaughter house herd and was charging back & forth ankle deep in cabbages, beets, potatoes and the wreckage of vegetable stalls...