Word: carcassing
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Once a prime whaling centre, New England is now whale-conscious only when a stray carcass is washed ashore to decompose into a smelly blubbery mass. From San Pedro, Cal., a few independent whalers operate on a small scale. But except for some whaling boats that make South America their headquarters and a few English companies, Norway has a practical monopoly on the industry...
Housewives who buy in the package in stead of off the carcass will be certain of cut, cleanliness and quality. And the manufacturer will have taken another step toward making the burden of salesman ship weigh even more lightly upon the retailing shoulder...
Another Marshall County boy, Keith Collins, 15, won the other best coveted prize of the live stock show, the carcass contest. The McCaulley Market of Mt. Kisco, N. Y., paid him $6.75 a pound ($4,873.50) for his yearling steer Benny, killed and dressed...
After all, who did kill Goliath? Elmer Davis, letting his imagination zoom, said in his novel Giant Killer that it was not David, but his sturdy nephew Joab. Stumbling on the huge carcass, David made bold to slice off the head and stagger back with it to camp, claiming a victory that...
...handshake between King Alfonso and President Doumergue symbolized the completely altered relations between France and Spain, historic enemies. Connoisseurs of handshaking were not, however, much impressed. They recalled that King Alfonso once shook the hand of a leper, a foul rotting carcass of a man, who had knelt to His Majesty in the street, superstitiously believing that he could be cured by the "Royal Touch...