Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Liverpool, the Vesteys rank with Swift, Armour and Wilson in the world's meat trade. When British retailers would not buy frozen meat 25 years ago, the Vesteys set up their own shops which now number some 4,000. When they could not get refrigerated space on ships from South America, they bought their own vessels, founded their own Blue Star Line, Ltd. Famed is Lady Vestey, born Evelyn Brodstone of Superior, Neb. Farm-bred, she became stenographer to Baron Vestey, later a $250,000-a-year executive ("highest-salaried woman in the world...
...every turn, by the fickleness of public opinion, and by what seems to be almost a deliberate attempt to misunderstand the new ideas of penology." This remark closely followed by another, that, "Prisons appear to be the biggest, shiniest target in the world. Anything that goes wrong is fair meat for almost anybody. A penologist's life, if I may borrow from Gilbert and Sullivan, is not a happy one." And again that "if prisons exist for the sole purpose of being agreeable, then the best citizens ought to be in them. If they exist in order to be primarily...
...other hand, it is possible that Handsome Dan, II can take care of himself. In a broadcast appeal his Yale friends have requested that his captors, whoever they may be, feed him on nothing but red meat. And it seems to us that the fine Italian hand of an Eli Machiavelli becomes visible. We never yet heard of a Yale bulldog fed for any appreciable length of time on raw beef that needed any sympathy. The Yales may have been able with impunity to kidnap a poor defenceless stuffed Ibis, but we shall be surprised if in a short time...
...nicely timed. The picture as a whole accomplished two things which I never thought to see done: it makes the hackneyed and hitherto invariably repulsive love-among-the-savages theme ring true; and it wipes out the station on Hollywood left by a long succession of darkest Africa, raw-meat-in-the-jungle, ameba-love abortions...
Efficiency in the use of the Oriental tools was only acquired after a period of several days. Cereals, ice cream, and potatoes were easy, but the meat courses always afforded serious difficulties. By extreme perseverance, however, even they were finally mastered. And yesterday the acme of perfection was reached when one Leonard P. Eliel '36 from J entry succeeded in consuming his soup by means of a spoon braced between his two chop-sticks. This feat excited envy throughout the dining hall, and the demand for chop-sticks became acute. A committee approached Mrs. Smith, the headwaitress, and guaranteed...