Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House, Maine's lame-duck Senator Gould conducted a party of French-Canadian hunters who presented the President with moose meat. A visitor lifted a birchbark horn to his lips and said: "Now, Mr. President, we'll show you how we call the moose." No Bull Mooser, Mr. Hoover exclaimed: "No, no, please don't! I'd just as soon look at those horns if it's all the same...
...happenings were recorded: ¶Early one morning the body of Frank Marco, alias Callahan, gunman, hijacker, was found in a midtown gutter. He was suspected of killing Tony Lombardo, one-time head of Chicago's Unione Siciliano. Gangster Marco was shot seven times, his head hacked with a meat cleaver. His wife Yvonne, once married to Crooner Harry Richman (onetime suitor of Cinemactress Clara Bow), disappeared when police stupidly notified her by telephone of Gangster Marco's demise. ¶Three armed robbers entered a 5th Avenue jeweler's office, took $8,000 worth of diamonds, then, frightened...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., went Lester Green, fruit farmer, with ten barrels of apples, in his horse & cart. He found it impossible to get a good cash price. He swapped apples for flour, flour for meat, meat for this & that, then drove home in a Model T Ford, bringing food for dinner, coat for lis wife, a pipe, a pound of tobacco, five gallons of gasoline, 50? in cash...
...birth. American by 40 years of residence, his record in the Bar includes investigation of the famous insurance scandals of a quarter of a century ago. He was a prosecuting attorney in the impeachment of Governor William Sulzer of New York. For the U. S. Government he investigated the meat packers in Chicago and was just delving into the building trades when Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty discharged him from the Government employ. Three years ago he unearthed a series of "ambulance chasing" scandals in Manhattan. Recently he has been at work investigating New York City Magistrates with the result...
Irish Wolfhounds spent most of their time asleep, although gapers who knew nothing of dogs kept standing round their benches to ogle them and exclaim when they woke up to gobble huge chunks of red meat. This breed, because of its appetite, is one of the most expensive in the world to maintain. When they were judged, King Lir of Ambleside made Mrs. Northrup Bellinger proud...