Word: hunger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motte, France, Dr. Pierre Etienne Meral, Russian-born, onetime personal physician to King Menelek II of Abyssinia, announced that he intended to commit suicide. A melancholy Tolstoian who could not conscientiously use violence on himself, he decided to starve himself to death. Last week, after 60 days of debilitating hunger, he succeeded...
...physiological function is as an aperitif, an appetizer, to a palate which perhaps is jaded; therefore its composition must be such as to give a fillip to the appetite, it must be piquant, to generate hunger...
...When Yale's Sinclair Lewis was preparing to write Arrowsmith, novel of doctors and medical researchers (TIME, March 23, 1925), Dr. Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters, Hunger Fighters) traveled with him, gave him his scientific information. They decided to make bacteriophage Martin Arrowsmith's research goal. A climax of the story comes when the phage is tried out against an epidemic of bubonic plague. But Yale's Professor d'Herelle was not Arrowsmith's prototype. Born in Montreal (1873), he studied and worked abroad, joined Yale in 1928, speaks with a decided French accent...
...Hamsun, Nobel Prize Winner (Growth of the Soil, 1920), is Norway's No. 1 novelist. By 1918 his books had been translated into 23 languages, bettering Hans Christian Andersen's record by one. Says he, with proud humility: "In 100 years I shall be forgotten." Other books: Hunger...
...Herr Bruning?" "Here!" answered Chancellor Heinrich Briining, while Communists yelled, "Hunger Dictator! Not one more day of Bruning in this place!" Amid all sorts of bedlam the roll call continued, reached "Herr Dr. Lowen-stein?" "Oi, oi, oi!" jeered the Fascists, repeated this noise every time a Jewish name was called...