Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treatise on comic books, showed the psychiatrists some grisly samples and presented some shuddery statistics. Every year 500,000,000 comic books are printed; the average city child reads ten to a dozen a month. If there is only one scene of violence a page, this gives him a diet of "300 scenes of beating, shooting, strangling, torture and blood per month." Every city child who was six years old in 1938 has by now, Legman figured, "absorbed an absolute minimum of 18,000 pictorial beatings, shootings, stranglings, blood puddles and torturings-to-death from comic books alone...
William's difficulties probably started with diet, says Miss Gardner in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics. Like most people in the Middle Ages, he ate too much in summer and too little in winter; that, plus lack of sanitary arrangements in his castle, helped produce constipation in a colon already sluggish. He got fat, a diverticulum or sac developed in the colon, and the sac became inflamed...
...drafts of his speeches to his wife in the living room of their 13-room house in Chevy Chase. "I'm the American public," says "Marney" Clifford brightly. "I used to be the average jury." When he is under the stress of big events, she surreptitiously changes his diet "to a sort of baby food...
Critic Brown admitted "that as a part of every healthy diet, everyone needs a certain amount of trash. . . . The comic books, however . . . [are] the lowest, most despicable, most harmful and unethical form of trash. . . As a people we must grow up. . . . We must put behind us that fear of the best and that passion for the mediocre which most Americans cultivate. Comics are the marijuana of the nursery . . . the bane of the bassinet...
...featured at the St. Paul Pops. The Pops are evenings of Music supplied by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, punctuated by two short ice revues. The season is a rugged one of three performances and six daylong rehearsals every week, and Barbara keeps fit for them on a concessionaire's diet of vanilla ice cream canes and potato chips...