Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Remus, onetime bootlegger king. Mr. Remus, clad in white coat, white apron, Palm Beach pants, celebrated the last day of his sentence by personally serving fare more elaborate than the regular prison diet. It was Mr. Remus' third banquet in his 30 days in jail...
...bloom of spontaneity. Percival Fream, rich, meticulous, impotent, gives her first a diamond ring, then a marriage which includes all the luxuries save one. Mary gives dances behind the bright windows and in the wide gardens of Hill House but she cannot escape the knowledge that, for a steady diet, potatoes are more satisfying than candied rose leaves...
...Japanese press devoted less space to events in China last week than to the minutes of the Imperial Diet. The British press of London and Toronto was calm and factual. But the newspapers of the U. S. grossly sensationalized the news. To catch the pennies that buy papers, cartoonists for the Chicago Tribune and many another great daily splashed out Chinamen in pigtails* being egged on to clash with U. S. marines by horrifically bearded Bolsheviki. Still more blatant were U. S. headlines. One example...
...East Indies ended, like any good fairy story, with the death of the dragons. The Burdens took their monsters home to Manhattan safely (TIME, Sept. 20), but there they died, after several months' captivity in Bronx Zoo, unable to survive in the chill climate and on a cage diet. Last week curators of the American Museum of Natural History announced that the dead dragons were nearly ready for exhibition in the new Hall of Dinosaurs. Their eight-foot corpses were mounted, one in the act of strangling a wild boar, the other "snarling defiance at civilization." Beneath their showcase...
...moral and artistic tone is enough above the average wanted, to be of some educational value" continued Mr. Hays, "yet not be so 'high brow' that they are unliked and consequently unpatronized Progress has been made but much remains to be done. The film companies cannot serve a vegetarian diet to people who want raw beef. In one of the largest theatres in Washington, Beau Brummel starring John Barrymore, lost $36,000. The following week "Flaming Youth netted...