Word: eating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resemblance of this plan (the House plan) to President Wilson's will be readily perceived. In explaining the "Quad System" in 1907 President Wilson said it was an attempt "to draw the undergraduates into residential quads in which they shall eat as well as lodge together, and in which they shall, under the presidency of a resident member of the Faculty, regulate their corporate life by some simple means of self-government...
...every British citizen, no matter where he lives. It is played with a ball harder than a baseball, with big flat bats, with eleven men on a side, two batters (one at each wicket), a bowler, a wicketkeeper, and an interval of tiffin. The professional members of a team eat in a part of the clubhouse separate from the amateurs' and their names are printed without "Mr." in the lineups...
...pair of shoes since the General Strike, two years ago. . . . Maybe they listened a bit to the Bolshevik then, but that's all over now. . . . There's no fight left in any of them. All they want is a chance to work so they can eat. . . . Nobody steals around here. There's nothing to steal. Half the people haven't a table or a chair-had to sell them to buy bread...
...hours later the "subscription audience" went home nauseated, well punished for their peeping-tommery. The piece had been all about an Englishman who morbidly followed a French circus for years, hoping to see the lion eat the trainer. By way of grisly climax the French trainer, vexed, flung the Englishman into the lion's cage, whereupon the stage was darkened and awful groans, snarls and tearing sounds betokened that the Englishman was being eaten...
Today the round face of the "German Lloyd George" is not ruddy with noontime beer and midnight champagne, but pale. He may eat only sparingly of dietetic food prepared by a special cook; and every evening he is bundled off to early bed by an efficient, uncompromising trained nurse. Recently it has even been noticed that Dr. Stresemann's personal physician is always closeted with him privily for five or ten minutes before he makes a public appearance or speech of any kind. Intimates of the House of Stresemann profess to know that the doctor spends these five-minute...