Word: eating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lavere, 57, another Chicagoan, seized a rope, demonstrated his own athletic age by skipping it at a rate of 1 2/3 skips per second for two hours, a grand total of 12,000 skips. Skipper Lavere was puffing and heaving when he stopped. Later he explained his agility: "I eat raw meat, everything raw. Eating raw stuff was the only thing that enabled me to do this. . . . From now on, there is an open challenge to any old duffer who thinks he can beat...
...That new clubs be formed with some common basis of interest with the double purpose of providing a place to eat for men not in other clubs and providing a club that should cut across other club lines...
...gloats the statistician--six times as much money is spent annually in Mexico for the moving pictures as for arena exhibitions. And what does this portend? Are the Mexicans losing their sporting blood that they are now content to sit drowsily in darkened room whereas they were wont to eat bananas and throw the skins at toreadors? In other words--where is their manhood...
Edinburghers thought him insane; incarcerated him in Morningside Lunatic Asylum. There he refused to eat unless he could hold his Bible in his lap, and after some months of this officials discharged him, as a nuisance. His influence on the simpler folk of the city, however, was profound. Many a sinful soul became a convert; many an enterprising man an imitator of Street Talker Flockhart...
...president's communication on this subject he says, "A club table system, means, first, that all students eating at the hall should be grouped into such tables; second, that there should be a special table for each group; third, that the members of a group should eat at their own table, but not necessarily at the same hour. Of course they must come within the hours at which meals are served; but they would not be limited any more than that, nor have they been at club tables formerly conducted at Memorial Hall...