Word: diets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Limitation of funds is handicapping the research work of the school, but some interesting problems are being worked out by undergraduates. Professor Percy R. Howe is continuing his work in nutrition and has developed a purified diet for animals which may be of considerable importance later on. Dr. Howe has been given an honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Bates College for his researches in this field
Henry Ford dilated on diet and divines, in the June Red Book magazine out last week. Said he: "Instead of cluttering up religion with a lot of things that do not belong to it, why doesn't the clergy teach people how to eat? ... The desire to drink is a false appetite . . . created in the first place, not by liquor, but by wrong combinations of food. . . . Part of the lesson toward physical fitness was the elimination of meat on Friday. The clergy developed that. Let it go ahead and finish...
...nutritionists must decide what effect those elements have on diet. It may be that a baby regurgitates because its milk contains too much zinc. It may be that colic comes sometimes from too much lithium...
...waiter sold a bottle to a customer with a badge and the club was given a padlock and a front-page story. In a new club Hostess Guinan continued to greet her friends with "Hello, Johnny" and her paying clients with "Hello, sucker."; Keeping her ebullience corsetable with a diet of broccoli and orange juice, she shouts "Pull up your water wings" whenever somebody upsets a bottle and "Give this little girl a hand" when her well disciplined revue girls perform. Recurring padlocks merely furnished publicity for the launching of new Guinan clubs. The current one is the Texas Guinan...
...Joan was slowly starving when "Stitches," the sailmaker, managed to barter a handful of dried apricots and an old alarm clock for a Norfolk Island milch-goat. A year later the good creature was killed by wreckage in a squall, and Joan went on regular sailor's diet: duff pudding once a week, onion bouillon (one onion to a bucket of water), curry and rice, boiled tapioca with pale lavender cornstarch sauce-the Jap colored the food to make it seem tastier than it was. Aged two, Joan could stagger across the deck and yell "goddamned wind" (picked...