Word: eating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposition is utterly destitute of courage and moral sense. . . . One of my sons was gassed and the other was a combatant soldier. . . . But a nation without spirit or an elevated soul is as bad as a derelict on the seas. . . . This country should not be content simply to eat and sleep and go to the movies. That would be a sorry contribution to modern civilization...
...unemployed in the U. S., Pennsylvania Railroad last month added W. E. S. Miller of Woodbury, N. J., George Carr of Lindenwold, N. J., 22 other furloughed clerks. Being veteran Pennsy employes and substantial citizens of their communities, Messrs. Miller & Carr decided to do something more than eat up savings, look for Relief, or moan to the neighbors. What they did was to form a "Legion of the Damned...
Audiences eat it up. They complain to the box office only on those rare occasions when Barrymore plays his part straight...
...classic picture of the dread angina pectoris (heart attack). Rapidly on the increase, angina pectoris (usually connected with diseases of the heart's arteries) claims over 10,000 victims in the U. S. every year, mostly middle-aged professional men (doctors are especially vulnerable) who work, eat, smoke, drink too hard...
...Flying," writes Wolfgang Langewiesche, "is now possible for any person of normal intelligence who is in good health and is financially able to eat regularly." It costs $275 or less to build up the flying time required for a private license.* Thanks to the light loads their large wings carry, "light planes," which commercial pilots call flivvers, pop-bottles, and of which an unprecedented 2,500 are being turned out this year, are all but foolproof. They cost as little as $1,098 new, far less at secondhand, may be hired at 4? per seat per mile. In one such...