Word: vegetarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minnie Maddern Fiske, famed actress. The guests included William K. Horton, President of the American Humane Association; Mrs. George Barnett, wife of the Major General; and others who, for want of a better term, may be called beastarians (by analogy with humanitarians). Presumably, the luncheon was entirely vegetarian. It was given in honor of Mrs. Fiske because, during the last 25 of her 60 years of life, she has devoted herself to the cause of suffering beasts. She has worn no furs, no feathers; her stage ermine has been cotton batting; no flesh has she eaten. She spoke...
...Bernard Shaw, the champion of vegetarians, has recently made his gastronomic faith the topic of a campaign speech. The road away from revolution, says he, is through meat. Meat is a soporific, vegetables put fire in the eye. As examples he cites the bull rhinoceros, the elephant, and the human vegetarian philanthropist. The most effective example, however, is Mr. Shaw himself. On a garden diet he turns out more invective than any other man in England...
...live his name, tempted a U. S. naturalist, Carl E. Akeley, of Manhattan, to pay him a visit years some ago. When Mr. Akeley came back, he exploded the gorilla myth. The gorilla in his native haunts is not a monster of ferocity. He is rather a mild-mannered vegetarian wandering around in the highest reaches of the equatorial mountains of Africa. His terrible war cry, so horrendously described by du Chaillu and other passionate French writers was nothing but a rather pitiable semi-human wail. He cannot be made to fight unless cornered. Mr. Akeley...
...Virginia in 1876. She was born, as a matter of fact, in a hotel. Who's Who further carries information that she is "pacifist, socialist, antivivisectionist." Who's Who can be most misleading; for, although she earnestly believes and carries out certain doctrines (she is, for example, a vegetarian), she has none of the formidable qualities which a statement of her creed implies...
...contemporary British literary and dramatic world is to be met within his pages. There is George Bernard Shaw, "the enfant terrible of London, always in the highest spirits and the strangest clothes, that might quite easily have been made at home, bilious in colour, and in pattern vegetarian like his diet"; Beerbohm Tree, who could never quite memorize his lines and, therefore, "with the most fertile invention posted prompters under tables, behind rocks or ancient oaks, so that the elusive word might be whispered to him as he moved in well disguised anguish from cache to cache,-a curious floating...