Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political and social movements of America. Look at the Spanish students, they say, who were the spark of every really important revolution in good Alfonso's glorious reign. Spanish politicians were careful to have these firebrands on the right side. Look at the English youth, they say, who eat, sleep and talk politics, and who could save the nation with a plan of their own before breakfast and still have time to settle the Indian question before lunch...
After his long devotions Laborer Talbot would go about his long day's work. His free time he spent in further prayer; Sundays he knelt at all the morning masses, and returned for afternoon and evening devotions. Cocoa, tea, bread comprised his diet. If friends persuaded him to eat more he expiated by fasting. His charities were even more secret than his pious practices. He managed to subsist on six shillings ($1.50) a week before the War, ten shillings after. The rest of his small wages went to the poor, to a Chinese mission and to the training...
...Valley Stream, N. Y., George Bishop tried to commit suicide by grinding up five electric light bulbs and eating them. Doctors found he had only a slight case of indigestion. Glass Eater Bishop used to eat glass in a side show...
...admittedly by its creators a perpetuation of Professor Merriman's idea, which he has never been at a loss to proclaim. Granting that, how can the dining hall system be anything except what it is? If you want the House to be a unit, you want people to eat in the House; and if you want people to eat in the House, you can scarcely want less than ten meals per person per week; one a day and three besides or two a day Monday through Friday. As for getting the beast to drink, he may holler if you pinch...
...recent letter in these columns contained a very entraining argument: If they want us to eat with congenial people, why I' God's name do they want us to eat in the House? Very fair, but let's join in a ring-around-the-rosie with the High Table in the centre and sing some chant to remind ourselves that the House provides not only showers, not only it braries, but also congenial friends. That's the purpose of it. One suggestion has been that people may charge their meals in any House. If these are to be charged...