Word: pig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...twelve paintings were black, white, grey and brown recollections of Manhattan gin mills and restaurants that Luks patronized shortly after the turn of the century: Luchow's, Paddy the Pig's, Mouquin's, Carey's Hole in the Wall. There was not a Man of Distinction...
...Babcock, 61, farm-born Cornell farm economist; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. He argued that the U.S. farm economy would be bolstered, and U.S. health improved, if farmers would raise more livestock and consumers would eat more livestock products, devised a calf-faced, rooster-crested turkey-winged cow-pig-sheep, the "Unimal" (TIME, June 19), as a symbol of his program...
...year-old Alessandro Serenelli tried to rape her, she resisted him, even though he stabbed her to death. As she lay dying, Maria forgave Serenelli and promised to pray for him in heaven. Serenelli served 27 penitent years in prison for his crime and is now a handyman and pig-tender at a Capuchin monastery. There last week he spent the day of Maria's canonization "in prayer more intense than ever...
...boom in business had an obvious effect on prices. Item: despite prospects of a 99 million pig crop this year, third highest in U.S. history, retail pork prices last month edged up 9.8%. They helped push the cost of living index up .8%, its sharpest advance in 22 months...
...Gambler Frank Erickson, who looks like an aggrieved pig and dresses like an advertising executive, could see his mistakes now. He never should have taken his office out of his hat and moved into a fancy Park Avenue office, complete with an accountant and neatly kept records. He never should have said anything to those Senators down in Washington...