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...high table and landing "with both feet together on his breadbasket."* Between springs he poured into her astonished ear the truth about the breadbasket-how the Macfadden stomach revolted against breakfasts, steaks and alcohol, and how steel-strong it grew on a regimen of nuts, raw carrots and beet juice. She knew that he loved her when he took her on a 20-mile hike; they had barely covered half the distance when he popped the question. When she said yes, "he stood on his head for me for one minute and four seconds." So began (in 1913) a robust...
Friday. "Devoted to harvest work, weeding of sugar-beet fields and the like...
Morris turned beet-red, removed his "Keep Your Shirt On" sign. "Excuse me," he shouted. "You've knocked off a lot of characters before, but you're not going to knock mine...
...Navajo beet worker, Kee Chee, did not do as he was told . . . He was told both by myself, the superintendent of the hospital, and the representative of the Amalgamated Sugar Co. which employed him, to leave the infant in the hospital. Moreover, Amalgamated and Minidoka County were paying and were willing to go on paying the infant's medical expenses. Notwithstanding this, Kee Chee and his wife insisted on taking the baby out of the hospital, and on their own responsibility, left with it on the chartered bus for their home in New Mexico . . . The Chees' reason...
...Harvard readers, there is danger in what Feeney preaches. The movement of which he is a symbol is large and growing. Richard Hamel, head of the American Fascist Union, has openly supported his views. His followers now wear special black suits and dresses to mark them off as a beet apart...