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- not comparableWithout eating.
A sign on the window read: “Okay, Uncle Sam! We’ll cooperate to the letter. We’ll even go you one better. Tuesday is meatless and also is eatless, for we will be closed on Tuesdays.”
1942 October 21, “Meatless Tuesday Goes Well in City […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC2 more examples
“The spirit of the age” says we shall have wheatless, meatless, sweetless, heatless and almost eatless days, but says nothing about tobaccoless, drinkless, chewing-gumless, candyless, soft-drinkless, jewelryless, fashionless days.
1919 July 12, W[illia]m K. Conner, “‘The Spirit of the Age’”, in D. L. Miller, editor, The Gospel Messenger, volume 68, number 28, Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House, →OCLC, page 446, column 2New York skiers are a determined lot. If snow exists anywhere within a reasonable distance they’ll find it, and neither crowded trains, heatless stations, eatless hours, long night journeys nor other discomforts of wartime travel keep them from their self-appointed missions.
1943 January 10, George H. Copeland, “Dauntless Is the Skier Seeking Snow […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
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