Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, cafeteria no longer, the Los Angeles Conservatory was serving up a carefully balanced musical diet. It also had a spruce new home, a roster of first-class names on its faculty and an accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Music on the office wall. L.A. was not yet as famous as Manhattan's Juilliard, Philadelphia's Curtis or Rochester's Eastman, but it had climbed up into their company as the first independent and accredited four-year music school on the West Coast...
...House dining room, and yet no effort is made by the College to provide board which I can with a clear conscience ingest. Yet at the same time every facility is provided for the benefit of the followers of certain other sects who observe Lenten restrictions on diet...
Perle Mesta is shaped to the mold of a Rubens model who has reached the age of a Helen Hokinson character. Her figure requires stern corseting; she carries a diet book in her purse, consults it before ordering. Except for her parties, she hates to spend money. Once she walked two blocks to Democratic headquarters because her hotel charged 12? for a phone call. People are always trying to wheedle money out of her; she does her own ordering for big affairs, and drives a good housewifely bargain. Says Perle, thrusting out her chin: "I'm stingy. That...
Vitamins & Smoke. Diet may be "an important predisposing cause" of cancer of the mouth, said the University of Southern California's Dr. Ian MacDonald. A lack of proteins and vitamins of the B-complex family (e.g., the sort of bland diet used to treat stomach ulcers) may be the trouble. Diets rich in proteins and B-complex may help prevent it. Smoking? Possibly a minor cause of cancer of the mouth, said Dr. MacDonald...
...work must be like a baby to him. Giving it to a singer must be like leaving it with a sitter. You'd think Mr. Porter would be on edge about it, but," she marveled, "he won't [even] quarrel with you about the baby's diet...