Word: eating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recognized the man beneath his sweat and dirt. "It's no squaw man, General," I said. "It's Bishop Brent." The General said, "God almighty, what a mistake!" And to the striker,- "Fix things for Bishop Brent!" But the khaki-clothed Bishop would not stop to eat. He had lunched with an Igorot in his mountain hut. He pushed on with a pleasant word to his furry companion who bore his canonicals and pajamas. "The Bishop," explained the General, "doesn't work among the Christian Filipinos. He says the Catholic God is the same as our Episcopalian...
Henry Ford dilated on diet and divines, in the June Red Book magazine out last week. Said he: "Instead of cluttering up religion with a lot of things that do not belong to it, why doesn't the clergy teach people how to eat? ... The desire to drink is a false appetite . . . created in the first place, not by liquor, but by wrong combinations of food. . . . Part of the lesson toward physical fitness was the elimination of meat on Friday. The clergy developed that. Let it go ahead and finish...
...eggs, as soon as laid, were penciled with the date and the name of the mother, and were then distributed among his friends, or sparingly eaten at his own meals. To eat a chicken itself was a kind of cannibalism from which his whole nature shrank. "I do not eat what I love," he said, rejecting the bowl of chicken broth I pressed upon him in his last sickness...
...more obvious advantages of living under a Dictator appeared last week in an order issued by Dictator-King Alexander of Jugoslavia. Street car conductors were forbidden to eat garlic or drink brandy before or during hours of service...
...Nine years ago," he says, "I started to lift weights. I have never stopped. Then I weighed 94 pounds. Now I weigh 179 pounds and have never felt better in my life. I eat almost anything, but I do not drink...