Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Which mention of hats reminds one to offer a plume to Philip Guedala, whose historical sketches have been a delightful condiment to the "Harper's" diet as he has rattled realities in the closets of the past and to the bold and true who recently suggested that the publishing of Miss Lowell's worst verse in all and sundry magazines does not help the sale of the "Life". There should be a Society for the Protection of the Reputations of Deceased Authors. Then literary Jerry Crunchers would have harder work, meriting their doctorates...
...operette? I should say not. The operette comes and goes, as it did twenty years ago and as it is doing now, but the musical comedy will always maintain its place in the hearts of the amusement-loving public. Amusement is essential to the average man's diet, and good wholesome amusement is best presented in the musical comedy...
...recovers his old vigor (and his physicians declare that there is nothing the matter with him that cannot be cured by rest and diet), it is expected that when he next returns to Moscow it will be to occupy a position vastly more important than any which he has held since his "banishment...
...Liberty motors with improvised equipment, and the readiness of all the men to fly over Ellesmere Land "where a forced landing meant 'curtains' [i. e. dropped curtains-Death]." Pilot Earl Reber of the NA-3, despite an attack of stomach ulcers that kept him on a milk diet for weeks, was credited with the most miles flown. Reber described the foggy flying weather as "dirtiest ever...
...sufficient for the comfortable supply of his family with necessary food and raiment; that provision for the President was not suitable, being without land to keep either a horse or a cow upon, or habitation to be dry or warm in; whereas, in English University, the President is allowed diet, as well as stepend, and other necessary provisions, according to his wants...