Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personality the Sardinian is grave and dignified, chivalrous and hospitable. Unfortunately he is nearly always poor and generally illiterate. Luxury to him means a tummy replete with porchettu, or sucking pig roasted upon a spit. Between piglets he subsists upon a diet featuring frue (sour milk) and a sweet fresh cheese. Hardy, he is apt not to notice fleas...
Champagne, although far from being the favorite beverage of Wagons-Lits Chairman Davison Dalziel, Baron Dalziel (pronounced Dee-el) of Wooler, figures indispensably in the diet of Lord Dalziel's shrewdly machinating colleague in the management of Wagons-Lits, Captain Jefferson Davis. Cohn, financial adventurer who has ventured to invest heavily in Wagons-Lits stock...
Fearing that his "redemption" might be overinterpreted, weak-stomached Mayor Walker explained: "My diet can never involve a principle...
Seven minute united states are represented in the Diet of Thuringia, a land which is itself only one of the 18 united states of the German Republic. Last week the Thuringian Diet began to debate favorably a wise measure transferring its entire Finance Department to the National Government in the interest of administrative economy...
Japanese were widely content at the dissolution, since, in any case, the four-year term of the present irresolute Diet would have expired in May. It will now be possible to put into effect at once the new universal manhood suffrage law (TIME, Jan. 9), which will increase the electorate voting for the new Diet from...