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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When food is abundant, "a healthy Eskimo living under primitive conditions will eat 5 to 10 pounds of meat a day." Trappers rely on caribou and dried buffalo meat. Hunters eat seal, walrus and whale meat. The Eskimo "has some carbohydrates for approximately two months in the year, in the form of blueberries. He also relishes the stomach contents of the caribou which, throughout the year, contain carbohydrates. . . . The stomach contents are often eaten with seal oil-a salad! When an Eskimo catches a walrus he immediately opens the stomach and eats all of the clams. . . . The Eskimos eat...
...their booth on the lawn outside University Hall. This is certainly the time and the country for action by the flying wedge, and one man's pressure is as good as another's. We have groups to raise the tariffs, groups to lower the tariff, groups to make us eat sugar, and groups to make us drink less alcohol. We have groups to remove the Indians from Oklahoma and groups to give New York back to the Indians. And now comes the most courageous of them all: the Council of Government Concentrators dares to pull the chair out from underneath...
...join us and all the time to talk of the theatre and eat my sandwiches. Bless my soul, sometimes I think I could break a commandment with this fellow! Yet he tell us many interesting things for I hear that Henry Hull and the cast of Tobacco Road may come to the Dunster House costume ball on the 14th; and that Haila Stoddard ("Froggie" as he does call her) may come dressed in her role as "Pearl". This should be a party in the best Dunster tradition...
...want clear and distinct ideas or clear and fruitful thinking? ... I can myself make nothing of this nostalgic preference save a diverting chance publicly to perpetrate as education delightful dinner-table repartee. . . . To some men the world of fact is only a small place in which to eat, sleep, drink, sexualize and die. To others it is a place primarily for dialectical self-exhibitionism. If one really wants to make ideas simple, clear, and distinct, he need only narrow his sympathies so as not to see the points of view of others...
...Swedish Senate, at squares twice in succession. She has a doll from every country in the world, each dressed in native costume. On the Fox lot she keeps rabbits and a flock of bantam chickens. The chickens operate with punctuality. Each night Shirley takes home an egg to eat for breakfast. In addition to satisfying constant requests for her own autograph, she collects those of other celebrities. Her contacts have enabled her to assemble one of the best collections in the world...