Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were the fanatical militarists of Japan's Fighting Services and whether or not a secret treaty of military alliance has been signed with Germany, these swashbucklers were set to risk a great war between Japan and Russia. This week Japanese vote in a general election for a new Diet or Lower House, but Tokyo wiseacres agreed last week that no matter how the popular vote distributes itself among Japan's civilian political parties, the Fighting Service chiefs must remain dominant for some time to come. Incredible Pittman- That, quite apart from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...bright idea of mixing a physic in bread flour occurred to a St. Louis trio named Edward Ownen, Frank Dawdy and Glenn Allmon, who composed Bakers' Research Co. That bread, a staple article of diet, should not be used to mask the presence of a cathartic, seemed sound to Chief Walter Gilbert Campbell of the Federal Food & Drug Administration. Mr. Campbell had the St. Louis three called to court where they were fined $600, "one of the largest recent penalties" imposed for a food & drug violation, Chief Campbell crowed last week...
...Guest was syndicated nationally. By last week he himself could not recall how many volumes of verse he had composed, guessed that his entire output numbered about 10,000 rhymes. A 937-page Collected Verse informs inquirers as to Eddie Guest's position on everything from diet to Deuteronomy. Examples...
GAUDY NIGHT-Dorothy L. Sayers- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Though murder stories form the chief mental diet of many a respectable citizen, even the most avid consumers are apt to be apologetic or defiant about their appetite. But they would not admit that detectification is the lowest form of writing. They would point out that the ability to concoct a specious and readable thriller demands more ingenuity and special training than many a novelist can command. And they would further contend that the best murder stories can compete with novels on their own ground. Partisans might instance the tales...
...lives in retirement near Stonehenge, writes gently minor poems that will seem old-fashioned to most readers of 1936. Of the 35 poems in Vigils, not one will taste bitter, few will have much taste at all to literary palates accustomed to present-day poetic diet. To ageing Poet Sassoon, even the War is now hardly more than a misty memory...