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...even the most advanced Macfadden theories seemed trite compared to the revolutionary Macfadden inventions. Most sensible of these was the "physical culture watch"-a turnip-size timepiece whose dial showed what exercises should be performed and what food eaten at given hours (e.g., "8 a.m. No breakfast. Take glass cool water. Walk to work. Identify the birds . . ."). Others included an apparatus for sluicing "pure Macfadden air" over the skins of fully dressed businessmen while they sat working at their desks, and a narrow-gauge railroad with open flatcars for the use of customers in department stores. ("It will revolutionize Macy...
...narrator, who becomes Zorba's boss and foil, is a 35-year-old scholar, tired, bookworm-eaten, a 20th century Hamlet. Sensing that he ought to get away from his study for a while, he eases off on his definitive life of Buddha and tries to run a lignite mine. Zorba, the would-be cook, becomes his chief engineer. And through Zorba, the scholar learns to see the world fresh each...
...that was almost bearable," he continued. "But when they told me they were going to vast me for their annual dinner, that was the last straw. 'Roast Ibis.' Ugh," he shuddered. "Imagine it--eaten like an ordinary bird. For soup, they were planning to have 'Ibis bisque...
...Sandy" MacDonald of Cambridge University stated that the English teams would be glad to pay their own way across this year. All was happy for a brief space, although American track men may have felt a bit miffed at a vision of John Bull, in scuffed spikes and moth-eaten persey, running against well-fed and well-outfitted local collegians...
...would react violently. Apathy is not in the nature of the country. It is the result of lies . . . Since March 1945 not a single minister has resigned because he is refused the means to pursue the policy which he believes necessary. Not a single spontaneous resignation in a France eaten away by lies and collusion-not a single one for eight years...