Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...food he is somewhat crotchety. His hard-boiled eggs must be started in cold water, cooked for 30 min. He must have plenty of fat pork as "an internal lubricant." He likes his vegetables underdone.* Only Mrs. Murray understands the proper preparation of what he calls his victuals. This diet, however, has kept him spry and supple. He can still stand on his head to amuse a rustic crowd. At his inauguration an old-fashioned ball was held at the Capitol and the Governor gave an animated performance of the "Kitchen Sweat," with the guests stomping and clapping...
...Saturday Japan will hold general elections for the lower branch of the Diet, a body consisting of 466 members. The elections are being held to strengthen the power of the Conservative Premier Inukai; for at present the lower house contains a majority of the Liberal party which previously supported Premier Wakatsuki. This lower house, contrary to Western traditions, is rather limited in its powers. Yet it evidently has sufficient significance for the present Premier to dissolve it in the hope of a majority for his own party...
Last week the Finnish Diet gave the Finnish people what they had asked for in last month's prohibition referendum. On the assumption the voters wanted plenty of cheap liquor, the Diet established the following prices...
Hereafter any doctor who prescribes a diet for an Italian woman is no friend of Fascism. Alarmed & angry at last year's drop of 56,000 in the national birth rate. Premier Benito Mussolini last week gave the Italian Medical Congress a piece of his mind. The piece...
...large proportion of the profits, the Diet decreed, would be spent for "temperance purposes," thereby providing the thirsty Finn with the satisfaction of knowing that if he tippled he did so in a righteous cause...