Word: vegetarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permitted to roam the air station arm-in-arm with the flyers. For months the men had been confined in monastic seclusion lest any of them get off mental or emotional balance. Under the fanatical hawkeye discipline of their commander, Col. Aldo Pellegrini, they dined together at a severely vegetarian training table. The hours of each day were strictly apportioned to flight practice, study, outdoor sport, sleep. A wife who tried to see her husband at Orbetello was brusquely informed at the gate: "All the pilots of the Atlantic squadron are bachelors." Indignantly she hurried home, exhumed her marriage certificate...
Hitlerism, In what sign does the pudgy little vegetarian with the Charlie Chaplin mustache conquer...
...country. Going through some woods, he sees a Negro lynched. A farmer gives him a job. He casts lustful eyes on the farmer's wife, lets his imagination run away with him and tries to rape her. Her scream brings the old farmer, sends the hero flying. A vegetarian hermit takes him in, tries to teach him the good life. But he is obsessed by thoughts of the factory; he leaves the hermit and goes back to town. A strike is on; the police break up a labor meeting. He sees red, tries to kill a policeman...
...cried a woman tennis player, pointing her racquet at Okanagan Lake. And again, last week, news readers throughout the land were reminded of British Columbia's fabulous lake-serpent. A gentle monster, 30 ft. long, "with the face of a sheep, the head of a bulldog, four flippers and vegetarian habits," the Ogopogo has appeared in Okanagan Lake every summer for the past six years. Usually it is sighted by a newshawk...
...English stage pretend to be a dramatist; his characters, from bacillus to the "sententious anchorite," are but the assorted speaking trumpets through which G. B. S. is announcing to the world his opinions on the war, the League of Nations, the excellencies of a vegetarian diet, Einstein, France and her "security," and H. G. Wells...