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...Hirohito sampled the warfare on which his soldiers in China are fed. For breakfast he and his wife squatted before a low table on which rested a bowl of boiled rice and barley, and side dishes of powdered bean paste and pickled radishes. At lunch the menu read: millet gruel, side dishes of bean noodles, pork, boiled spinach and salty pickled plums. That evening the Emperor and Empress dined on boiled rice and barley again, had side dishes of dried fish, carrots and boiled lotus roots. One day of warfare was enough for the Son of Heaven. To date...
...require soft curds for comfort. All types "require 10% of mixed sugars added, with supplements of vitamins D and C. On the other hand all types tolerate breast milk." Other Kugelmass advice: for allergic newborn babies, goat's, evaporated or vegetable milk; for nervous babies, evaporated milk or gruel (milk or water cooked with cornmeal or oatmeal); for pudgy babies who lose weight rapidly and irregularly, evaporated milk...
...world press was handled with great tact by Lord Wigham, the King's Private Secretary of many years. Warm, homely details were not stifled. For example, the King, when broth and gruel palled, was permitted to have a few drops of warm brandy "as a treat...
When Alia Nazimova revived Ghosts on Broadway last week Reviewer Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times, in line with the current critical tendency to regard the plays of Henrik Ibsen as dated, called the drama "only a temperate statement of an ugly thought with a milk-&-gruel attack upon authority and pious idealism." Nevertheless, nobody but Eugene Brieux has since staged the tragedy of venereal inheritance so terribly as Ibsen. As for timeliness, the final "mercy murder" in Ghosts might have been cribbed from last month's front pages (TIME, Nov. 18 et seq.). At any rate...
...last year's undefeated Freshman team, which finished the season by trouncing the Yale yearlings in a meet which furnished seven new dual records, have made their appearance. The stars of this aggregation were Dario C. Berizzi and Peter Arioli, who finished one, two, in the 220-yard gruel of the University meet...