Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sacred Lunatic easily acquired a sufficient smattering of Rampolese, quickly learned to relish succulent human meat. The Islanders prided themselves that they were not cannibalistic, but merely appreciative of the "gifts of the goddess"-bodies of criminals. Moral standards were unusually high, for the monotonous fish-diet made every man the more eager to detect a gustable neighbor's mortal infringement...
...that is just what this 'sidewalk-reared Prince' has done. He served us our first dish as we sat in the rain at Albany and listened to his acceptance speech. And he has kept us on a steady diet of crow ever since...
Within this region, on the Rock River estate of Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican nominee for Illinois Congress-man-at-large, her Holstein herd graze. Prof. George W. Cavanaugh of Cornell University secured permission to subject those Rock River cows to an experimental diet. Since July11 they have become epicures among cows, familiar with rare seasoning. Their ordinary feed has been powdered with seaweed rich in iodine...
Last week the machine for hurting ears was installed in the Diet building and a dozen hired mendicants were brought in to test the apparatus by being hurt...
...click of a switch super-power "scream amplifiers" came into action, and words conversationally spoken into a microphone on the desk of the President of the Diet resounded through the hall like deafening thunder peals...