Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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White bread can only be bought in bakeries "for home consumption," but Berlin newspapers gave credence to a curious rumor that the police will deal considerately with "people having weak stomachs," who bring their own white bread to restaurants, eat it there...
...standard circular pie cut into pieces of eight allowed but 45 degrees per mouth. True, there were four corners to the eight-section pie with crust on two sides, but . . . that was why you ate pie. If you preferred filling to crust, you might just as well eat apple sauce...
...Cake" may not cause the rafters of Brattle Hall to ring with unrestrained laughter, but there are certain to be wry smiles up Cantabrigian sleeves, as this or that familiar platitude is aired in the quaint garb which Mr. Bynner has provided. Like the three-year-old we shall eat the frosting which he has spread on his delectation, leaving the more solid fare to the erudite, if there be any such in attendance, unrepelled at the prospect of a "fantasy in verse...
...Constitution. President Hoover last week obeyed the injunction for his third time in 21 months of office. He did not go to the Capitol himself. Instead, clerks intoned his Message from the Nation's rostra. The Nation's legislators take an opportunity like this to go and eat their luncheons, gossip in the lobbies...
...done with all the Government's wheat. He laughed when asked once more about a big rumored sale to Italy, called it "unfortunately untrue." He stressed the Board's efforts to get farmers to feed wheat to their livestock, saying: "Why, one active energetic pig will eat as much wheat as a family of five persons. First give the pig a chance and there will be no surplus wheat in this country...