Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleven resolute women, all Drys, all members of the Government bloc in Poland's Sejm (Diet), arose from their seats last week, marched round and round the hall giving tongue to Dry slogans...
...health men are not greatly concerned. Nonetheless, Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service saw fit to advise the public last week on how to guard themselves. His gist: "Go home and go to bed. . . . Call the doctor . . . remain in bed; eat a simple diet; take plenty of fluids such as water, fruit juices, milk, bouillon and hot soups at frequent intervals. . . . Do not take any so-called cure. There is no specific cure...
Wets in the Finnish Diet, parliament of the world's No. 2 Prohibition country, did their best to give a handsome Christmas present to thirsty Finns last week. They introduced a bill to raise the alcoholic content of legal beer from 1.6% to 3% by weight.* The measure was rejected (97-86) but, impressed by the closeness of the vote, the Cabinet ministers dropped unofficial but important hints that so soon as the ice is out of the lakes and canals next spring, the Government will introduce laws preparatory to a national referendum on Prohibition. (Finland's present...
...buttons-to-be break away, support themselves. Dr. Ellis has found a nutrient medium to take the place of the fish, containing all the substances a growing mussel needs. Next spring fishery officials hope to plant in the Mississippi valley 60 million juvenile mussels raised on Dr. Ellis' diet...
Toscanini characteristically made no reply. In the six years he has conducted the Philharmonic, Toscanini has never given an interview, never explained his musical methods or described his diet. "I speak," he tells his friends, "a universal language. If the public cannot understand . . ." and he will shrug his shoulders. But his attitude is known to be one of humility. He regards himself as the servant of the composer, holds every note important...