Word: fats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called "The Violet." Revolted, Claude took up with a fox-terrier. A motor truck ended that affair, much as Author Hume ends Claude by putting his heart in a harlot's handbag. The immediate cause of so much frustration is given in Claude's stuffy mother, two fat, fretful aunts and an uncle with cold-storage hands...
Thin Legs and Fat Legs trudged the golf hills. Sharp-faced Thin Legs was in his thirties; rubicund Fat Legs in his twenties. Thin Legs the wiry stylist, Fat Legs one of the most compact and well-oiled golfing units in the world. Where they walked, the sun had tarried long and close, until the hills steamed. They had walked, for miles, all others dropping. Thin Legs of Scotland, used to braw winds; Fat Legs of Georgia, fond of sweltering...
That was in 1904. Now, 21 years later, Raisuli, the bandit, grown fat and old and tame, is prisoner of a new son of the desert, Abd-el-Krim (TIME, Feb. 16, SPAIN). Now, according to word that came across the Atlantic last week, Ion Perdicaris is dead in Chislehurst, England...
Epilepsy. A simple diet high in fat has been found to bring relief to the unfortunate child suffering from epilepsy. This hopeful news was brought to the convention by Dr. M. G. Peterson of the Mayo Clinic. His new treatment for fits and convulsions has been in use for intervals of from two and a half years to three months; and, of the 37 children treated, more than half have not been troubled with convulsions since they started on the diet...
...diet used by Dr. Peterson is not unusual except in the large amount of fat and the small amount of carbohydrates included. As much as six-sevenths of the total food is made up of such fats as cream, butter, olive oil, codliver oil and any other fatty food that children will take. Sugars and starches arc cut to a minimum and protein sufficient to maintain bodily growth is carefully added. Dr. Peterson reported that, in addition to the cessation of all epileptic symptoms, the youngsters slept sounder, minded their parents better...