Word: diets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tokyo was on the streets to witness the passing of Crown Prince Hirohito on his way to a session at the Diet. At one point a young man broke through the police cordon, ran a few steps after the Crown Prince's automobile, and, raising a "cane-gun,"* fired at the Prince. The bullet shattered the glass in the machine but did not harm Hirohito. Viscount Tamemori Irlye, Chamberlain to the Prince Regent, was wounded slightly by the falling glass...
...Wilhelm Marx, 60 years of age, has had a seat in the Reichstag for twelve years. Formerly he was a member of the Prussian Diet. He is, at present, leader of the Catholic Party, National head of the Catholic School Association and a judge in Cologne...
...either by inhalation or a hypodermic needle, exactly the,contrary of the effect of ether on human beings is produced. Instead of putting plants to sleep it can produce overnight perceptible fresh green shoots from rose bushes dug out of frozen ground in midwinter. Kept indoors on the ether diet, they grow and bloom weeks ahead of the usual flowering time. Still more miraculous, they are found to be immune to all the ordinary plant diseases that hamper indoor rose culture. A very small quantity of ether does the trick-about a tablespoonful in an air-tight chamber containing...
...reserved seats in the colonnade and in the wooden, stands on the cinder track will be offered to the public. On Saturday the final black of tickets will be put on sale, when 12,000 rush seats in the wooden stands at the end of the Stadium are offer diet the gates of Soldiers Field at 81.00 each...
...Sunday dinner of December 2 will be known as the International Golden Rule Dinner, which means in short that every person who observes the dinner will dine that Sunday on a diet of bread, stew, and cocoa varied by some fresh vegetables, and these persons will save the difference between this frugal fare and the customary American Sunday dinner in order to give it to the Near East Relief for the benefit of the starving children of Armenia and Anatolia...