Word: eating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheval!" the French maitre d'hotel has confessed privately, "a bit of horseflesh for a people who will eat any meat providing it is 'corned.' . . . C'est leur propre fourrage...
Explanation may lie in the fact that Tsarist landlords underfed their peasants and sold abroad what the hungry would have liked to eat. Today, with the peasant master of his Fate and Farm, rural tummies are full to bursting, and urban workers are experiencing a slight vacancy under the belt...
...sleeping cars are clean and well served. . . . The trains do about 25 miles per hour with frequent stops to fuel at wood piles along the way. . . . About half the passengers usually eat in the diner. The other half buy food from the peasants and have picnic meals in their compartments. The peasants gather at the stations at train time with all kinds of cooked food for sale . . . good bread, golden honey, boiled milk, roast ducks and chickens...
...given virtually a record. As night fell over the stones and spires of Innsbruck, the slumbers of gruff Governor Stumpf were interrupted by indignant student-patriots who assembled and shouted: "Down with our cowardly Government! It seeks to kill national pride!" Crestfallen Austrians lamented that they, defeated & disarmed, must eat Italian crow...
...Every day in every way I'm getting thinner and thinner"--as M. Coue's slogan might have been--applies the same principle as does the actress in her home-made "grow thin" method. She merely decides to lose weight--and she does. Eat everything you like, though not too much of it, to be sure, indulge in mild exercise, and think: that is the whole formula...