Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dardanelles, barged up the Sea of Marmora and dropped anchor in the Bosporus off Leander's Tower. Later Stavro Chelebides, agent for the Maiotis, brought out from shore potatoes, macaroni, meat and salad greens for Mr. Insull who had been desperately sick in the Aegean on a diet of boiled chicken. Fresh water was taken aboard so the Maiotis could sail that afternoon...
Because she does not go in for backstage tantrums or lug around pet jaguars (see p. 32) Lotte Lehmann rarely makes the news columns. She does not advertise her diet which consists mostly of fruit and vegetables, a glass of sherry before she goes on stage. She keeps dogs and cats in her Vienna home but not in her dressing-room. To every performance she takes photographs of her father, mother, grandmother, brother, husband, kisses them all for luck...
Like the parent of many a kidnapped child, Mr. Rudginsky advised the snatching of the diet needed by the victim of the crime: raw meat, raw eggs, milk once...
...majority Seiyukai party rose to link Minister of Education Ichiro Hatoyama and Railways Minister Chuzo Mitsuchi with the recent significant merger of all Japanese steel works. They charged that the steel companies had cash-bribed Ministers Hatoyama & Mitsuchi and 130 Representatives. Furious voices screamed back & forth in the Diet, named Hatoyama with menacing frequency. True or false, the scandal was of the kind that traditionally makes Cabinets reach for their hats. Premier Saito was ready to "release" Hatoyama, hoped against hope that that would be enough...
...Last week Baron Nakajima, now Minister of Commerce and Industry, woke one morning to find his name and Traitor Takauji's spread across the pages of Japan's press. His enemies had dug up the article and reprinted it. Millions shuddered as they read. Deputies in the Diet shouted that Nakajima who had condoned treachery to the throne was a traitor too. Peers pointed their fingers. Lost in the hubbub were murmurs that Minister Nakajima had been distributing stock in the semi-official Bank of Taiwan below market price. In vain the flustered baron protested that ten years...