Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suffrage. She founded the Woman's Peace Society, on nonresistance doctrine formulated by her father and perfected by Russia's Tolstoy. But vote-seeking and international peace gatherings consumed only part of her time and energy. For nearly a half-century she managed the New York Diet Kitchen Association and was active in many another social service body in and about Manhattan. Tireless, vivid, she mounted many a platform in her last years, a majestic old gentlewoman in the kind of hats Queen Victoria liked, voicing the kind of ideas with which Queen Victoria's great-great...
...boat. A onetime employe of the late Mr. Pierce says the Brule trout used to be so thick and tame (from hand-feeding) that you could take them with only a landing-net. They were so thick that there was not enough natural feed for them. Stinting their artificial diet made them so ravenous that they would strike at anything you dropped overboard-a cigarette butt, a finger. Mr. Pierce was a sportsman and permitted only flyfishing, with barbless hooks...
...Diet, dress and demeanor of two desperately bold females in a moment become of head-line importance. Boom, boom go the Hearst syncopators. First class murders, Grade A scandals forth-with fade to the inside pages. The moans of the late Mr. Reading die away entirely...
Gaunt from wretched diet, toothless from scurvy, the cynical oldsters were right that escape was not so certain. Six weary years dragged themselves out: lumberjacking or road-building under armed guards, restless hours in prison, philosophising, swearing, gambling for "mômes," the girlish boys who were possessed by carnal strongmen. With luck bits of wood could be stolen and carved into salable boxes, or penny errands might be run for the slave-drivers, and bit by tarnished bit the price of attempt at freedom could be bought. Five hundred francs would bribe a bushman to paddle one convict across...
...defeated Becket (C), 6-4, 6-2; J. H. Appleton '29 defeated Hulstend (C), 3-6, -3, 6-3; Custer (C) defeated Arthur Ingraham Jr. '30, 6-3, 6-4; Runey (C) defeated C. R. Hamlen '30, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, F. B. Ward '30 defeated Diet rich...