Word: eating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Legion gave out an interview: "Legionnaires and their families who come to the Convention should all be inoculated for typhoid before leaving the U. S. . . . Even so they should drink only bottled mineral water in Paris. ... To guard against ptomaine poisoning they should be extremely careful to eat only selected food...
...that groups definitely express their inclination for a Commons has met with success, and consequently there has been no progress. Now, however, a petition, fully sanctioned and authorized by President Lowell, will be circulated in an attempt to secure signatures of five hundred men who will pledge themselves to eat in such an establishment for one half year. If this number of men signs the University promises a hall to be opened next September...
President Lowell has approved definite plans for a club table system, to go into effect next winter. These arrangements, which provide for the erection of a dining hall at the corner of Mount Auburn and Holyoke Streets demand that 500 students pledge themselves to eat at this building regularly for the first semester next year at a weekly expense of approximately...
Totally different was the procedure of genial President Paul Loebe of the German Reichstag when one Adolf Stein, Nationalist newsgatherer, signed a story in which he graphically described how Frau Loebe allegedly eats peas, beans, spinach and other vegetables with her knife. When President Loebe learned that in retaliation for this article a subordinate Reichstag official had deprived Correspondent Stein of his card of entrance to the Reichstag, he at once interceded and caused the card to be reissued. Said Herr President Loebe, after thus turning his wife's other cheek: "Newspaper men must not be punished merely...
President Herbert W. Hoover is sagacious. He it is who is credited with feeding a Boston girl and making her sleep, eat, exercise until the doctors at Tufts College knew just how much work she could do with a definite, measured amount of energy. Then he had her set to cleaning carpets with a broom, a carpet sweeper, a standard vacuum cleaner and a Hoover (combined carpet sweeper and vacuum cleaner). Tufts tests showed that the Hoover demanded least energy...