Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With its factories and offices only a two-hour bomber hop from Nazi air bases, British industry has plenty to think about. One thing it is thinking about is how to induce aging members of boards of directors to get physically fit to replace younger men called to the colors...
...There is no standard diet to fit all ages and classes. A hard-working farmer or laborer needs an abundance of fuel foods such as bread, potatoes and meat. A growing child needs almost twice as much food as his sedentary father. A Southerner needs less starch, sugar and fat than a Northerner. A desk-bound businessman needs practically no white bread, potatoes, cakes and pies. But for health and longevity, eaters of all ages and classes must tuck in one quart of milk every day, a variety of vegetables, fruits, fresh red meat, fish, and eggs several times...
Harlem's "400,'' dressed fit to kill, sashayed into Harlem's Renaissance Ballroom to acclaim its No. 1 debutante, lissome, chicory-colored. 18-year-old Wezlynn Margaret Develle Tildon. Swathed in demure Victorian mousseline de soie, Debutante Tildon stood in a receiving line beside her mother, who drawled: "There has never been a daughter in our immediate family who was not properly presented to society...
...education in general he cracks: "To be fit for life in society, every child, as well as every dog, must be housebroken...
...this point that Virginia-born M. P. Lady Astor, ever ready to put in her tuppence worth, interrupted. She owns a deer park on the Isle of Jura, she said, which is all moss and peat and "fit for nothing but deer." Not even trout could be raised on it. Spunkily Lady Astor offered to build Mr. Kirkwood a cottage on her deer park on Jura and bet him he could not make a living off it. Machinist Kirkwood is no farmer, but he accepted-much too hastily, it turned out. The discussion was continued in the lobby...