Word: food
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Youth is having other trends which speak for themselves. Students spend more for meat, fish, eggs and poultry than for any other kind of food. The trend-watchers must have thought that fact particularly significant, just as significant as the fact that Harvard University has discovered that its students are growing taller at the rate of one inch every 32 years. It things keep moving at that speed, Harvard boys will soon be men. -"The Dartmouth...
...eating garlic, long esteemed by Koreans as an aid to fertility. The Duchess was one of the "twelve most glamorous women in the world" invited to a tea given by Lady Mendl in Paris for Dr. H. B. Hauser, Hollywood dietitian.* At the tea, Dr. Hauser talked about food. He accused his twelve fellow guests of "sinful eating," promised them that they "could retain their glamor for a much longer time" by eating simpler foods and more vegetables. Reported Dr. Hauser: "All were serious and the Duchess of Windsor the most interested...
Year ago in Memphis, Tenn., a haggard, burning-eyed, 100-lb. clergyman, Dean Israel Harding Noe (pronounced No-ee) of St. Mary's Cathedral (Episcopal), fasted himself into the news (TIME, Jan. 31, 1938). Attempting to prove that "the spirit can sustain the body, unaided by food or drink," Dean Noe kept it up for 22 days, was then deposed by his bishop for his "vagary" and taken, gravely ill, to a hospital...
...evening, Picasso dines at the same little restaurant on the same pasty food, will then take a cafe-creme at the Cafe de Flore, almost always with the same group. His wit, which has made him feared by sycophants, is famous and often malicious. Examples: (of a young girl artist) "Her mother drinks, her father drinks, and it is she who has the red nose"; (of James Joyce) "an obscur whom everyone can understand." Picasso's critics do not like the way he pretends that nothing he says can have any really damaging effect. They point to this...
Incomplete as mere earnings figures last week (major food, automobile and building companies had still to report), certain conclusions were inescapable. Steel's tumble was proof of how heavy industry has lagged in the recovery from Depression II. Caterpillar Tractor's drop reflected the slump in farm income. Conversely, Continental Baking's rise shows how industry's more rigid prices make for profits when highly elastic farm or other raw-material prices fall...