Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtain finds them sprawled across a parapet, pierced by treacherous bullets, boiled in the oil-vat of some inquisitor or crumpled upon a doorstep with their throats, their canary throats, slit from ear to ear. But in life, as everyone knows, opera singers have to be careful of their health. This last reflection was one that occurred to Beniamino Gigli, celebrated tenor, as he sat in a Detroit hotel, one night last week, staring at a piece of paper. He read...
...Health and recreation are provided for by a medical staff, an athletic director and the usual extra-curriculum activities, in order to relieve the monotony a long sea voyage. The entire expense of the eight months trip is $2500 per student. A limited number of preparatory school boys will be included in the roster, and the boat will dock at New York in June, 1927, in ample time for them to take college entrance examinations prepared for on the trip...
...told that the automobile of M. Le Maréchal had crashed into a motor driven by Mlle. Godart, the daughter of M. Justin Godart, Minister of Labor and Health in the last Herriot Cabinet (TIME, June 23, 1924). He told that the scene of the crash was the broad Champs-Elyseées, where motor cars have perhaps more space in which to avoid one another than anywhere else in Paris. He meticulously read out of his notebook a list of the personal damages sustained from flying glass: Un?The derby hat of Marshal Foch pierced by a sliver. Deux?...
...board thereafter) and as Columbia's oldest living graduate, Mr. Stewart is also Princeton's oldest official. He has seen the regimes of Presidents Maclean, McCosh, Patton, Wilson, Stewart and Hibben. Well started on his second century of life, he lives in Manhattan in good spirits, good health...
...same age. Indirectly this is in part the effect of conditions that no one would wish to see duplicated in America, such as military service, economic pressure, and extreme standardization of instruction. There is also in America a cult of play and sport that contributes both to health and to social experience, as well as to happiness...