Word: eating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nonetheless, it was a wise and (with Christmas holidays so near) a convenient move for scores of schools and colleges to close classes last week. Sensible people followed medical advice-to avoid crowds and ill-ventilated places, to exercise well in the open air and sunlight, to eat well, to take to bed at the first signs of malaise. And statisticians were left to calculate the enormous resultant loss in productive power...
Sixteen of the younger, unmarried teachers live in the hall, not at all as proctors, but rather as students in more advanced lines of work. These men apply for rooms just as the incipient doctors do; they eat and play and study with the other members of the "house...
...Dick did win. James Cash Penney, chain store owner and raiser of Guernsey, paid $7 a pound for Dick-$8,050 all told. The highest previous price was $3.60 a pound, two years ago. Mr. Penney intended to ship Dick to Manhattan, exhibit him to the urbanites, then eat him for Christmas dinner. But gourmanderie was not Mr. Penney's prime reason for buying Dick, nor advertising. He has stores in small towns throughout the country and he wished to encourage boy & girl stockbreeders, his customers...
...wait after the second scene was due to his efforts to be helpful ... I suggest that Mr. Stallings and Mr. Hammerstein persuade Mr. Goodman to go to Italy for a month and fill himself with food so that he may fall into a torpor. . . . They must get Mr. Goodman eating or their play will collapse'. ... A sharp pruning knife. however, especially if Mr. Goodman can be sent to Italy to eat some food, will work wonders. . . . But the gastronomic Mr. Goodman must be induced to restrict his attention to his tummy...
...there are many thousands of fantastic gourmets who put cream on their bananas, who butter their celery, who eat apples with salt. One of the last, Kenneth M. Hall, of Austin, Tex., an undergraduate of Texas University, last week accidentally sprinkled not salt but poisonous crystals on his apple, ate it, died...