Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolph Fuchs, Director of the State Hospital for the Insane at Kaufbeuren, near Munich, Germany, last week. One of his patients suffers from Pica. Pica is the depraved appetite which the mentally unbalanced, the hysteric and the pregnant often develop. Like magpies (Pica is Latin for magpie), they eat all things they encounter. Dr. Fuchs' patient, a man, has swallowed needles, nails, knife blades, spoons, a screwdriver handle, a beer seidel handle, coins, matches, all with no apparent harm. Once he drank sulphuric acid, another time lysol. He is allowed no clothes with buttons. Last week he discovered...
...prehensile feet peer wildly out of the trees. The Johnsons gave a movie show of Charlie Chaplin for King Nagapate's cannibals in the Big Numbers Territory, next day went inland to see the cannibal village. No longer friendly, Nagapate's men seized them and were getting ready to eat them when, in the manner long familiar to adventure fiction, a British man-of-war on regular tour-of-inspection swung into the harbor, lowered a boat...
...generally admitted that the reform is excellent in theory; criticism questions only its practicability. Doubt of its success rests mainly on the promise that "American students resent being told with whom they shall eat and sleep." This is undoubtedly true with regard to very small groups, but it is not applicable to societies of two hundred odd members. At Princeton the majority are content with liberty of choice in regard to a room-mate; they raise no formidable insurrections over arbitrary allotment to dormitories and Commons, or over a system of club elections by which their table companions are determined...
Waiting for their ships to be made ready, the 60 Soviet sailors seemed to have nothing to do but play pool, which they did exuberantly 18 hours at a time in the basement of St. Mary's House. Speaking no English, they preferred to eat at cafeterias where it is possible to order by merely pointing. A few of the braver ate in service restaurants, but limited themselves entirely to Hamanex (ham & eggs) an order internationally understood since...
Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. ("Don't wonder at the tremendous grosses the Paramount Exhibitor is piling up. He's not pulling 1929 pictures out of the icebox and hoping they'll eat 'em up; he's giving them 1930 Paramount hits right off the fire and they're flocking to the feast" [advertisement in Jan. 8 Variety] ) : $15,500,000 (estimated) as against...