Word: hechts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which proves that food is worth talking about, as everybody knows already. Mr. Charles E. Hecht, an English food expert, says that indigestion has finally been found to be the cause of nearly half of all human illness. But still more interesting, he believes that "eating has a specific social reaction." For example, the actor Charles Kean declared that when he was playing the part of a tyrant he ate pork; when he was playing a murderer, he ate beef, and when he was playing a martyr he ate mutton. The moral is clearly to avoid beef...
...return to Mr. Hecht, however; this gentleman has discovered that men of genius have commonly disregarded the anguished cries of their stomachs. Napoleon, who is an example for almost everything, ate at all hours, nibbled sweets constantly, and finally lost the battle of Waterloo because of a stomach ache. Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, was in the habit of eating a heavy dinner and going immediately to bed--where he regularly suffered from insomnia and indigestion. This, it is believed accounts for his cynical, gloomy philosophy. Similarly, "the bitter passages of Huxley's essays are attributed to dyspepsia, which resulted from...
...Hecht, novelist, playwright: "Charged with sending obscene matter throught the mails, Wallace Smith (illustrator) and I will go on trial Feb. 4 before Judge W. C. Lindley, of Chicago. The name of the book which caused us trouble is Fantazius Mallare...
HARVARD DARTMOUTH Fitton, g. g., Countryman Furber, r.f.b. r.f.b., Thayer Greenidge (Capt.), l.f.b. l.f.b., Parker Drew-Baer, r.h.b. r.h.b., McQuade Brooks, c.h.b. c.h.b., Dewing Pattison, l.h.b. l.h.b., Barker Gray, o.r.f. o.r.f., Wiley Tuttle, i.r.f. i.r.f., Roche Dorman, c.f. c.f., Hecht (Capt.) Lamont, i.l.f. i.l.f., McKinney Eldridge, o.l.f. o.l.f., Weeks...
...Dartmouth eleven, except for Captain Hecht, Dewing, and Weeks, is made up of untried players. Hecht is easily the outstanding player, while Thayer has also performed creditably, especially in the Princeton game...