Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then in Manhattan. All this time Athene was spiritually holding his head, watching him spit out the bile. Eventually he regurgitated the cause of all the trouble: he had been an idealist, a blind prig. From then on he was ready to try any dish to find his proper diet...
...unable to stand the strain much longer!" wailed the haggard plutocrat. "I have had three cables from the United States one of which suggested a lettuce diet. I have had more than 1,000 letters from the United States, England, Ireland and Scotland. Many noble women have written me saying that they are only sympathetic and interested in getting me to sleep and care nothing...
...recent weeks that Japan's few rabble-rousing proletarian candidates were actually drawing audiences of respectable size. As the slow Japanese counting of votes began, a big surprise broke last week when the previously minuscule Social Masses Party was seen to have won 18 seats in the new Diet, all of which will be occupied by thoroughgoing rabble-rousers who can make Japanese politics lively if they dare...
Emperor an Organ? Of the total of 466 Diet seats nearly all were contested by machine candidates of the two large and wealthy Japanese parties, the Seiyukai and the Minseito. Many of these candidates neither knew nor cared what the issues, if any, were. This astounding state of affairs existed despite the fact that there had been no Japanese election since 1932. In theory the poll last week should have settled the paramount issue of Eastern Asia, whether Japanese expansion is to rage on through China at staggering cost or whether the Japanese people disapprove the extravagant and risky militarism...
Venus and the Lute Player, finished when the world's longest-living (99) painter was about 83, is in Titian's "yellow & blue" period with overtones of the preceding "red & green." No diet-disciplined Hollywood beauty, the great-hipped, heavy-stomached Venus lies on a violet couch while a Cupid crowns her with flowers, and a boyish nobleman serenades her with a lute. The paint job is superb, the composition dramatic. Credited with being the first intimations of 18th Century Impressionism are the blue mountains, the wide vague plain in the background...