Word: vegetarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only three persons attended her funeral. Born of a theatrical family, Mrs. Fiske began her career at the age of three; it extended, except for a four year retirement after she married Harrison Grey Fiske, until she was forced to relinquish her engagement in Chicago last November. A strict vegetarian, a militant antivivisectionist, she was famed for her fanatical fight against wearing furs. Typical of many a eulogy last week was Producer George Grouse Tyler's: "Mrs. Fiske was the last great actress of our period. . . . Not in this generation, perhaps not for several . . . will the theatre again have...
...been more than an optical necessity, more than a symbol of a political and social heritage, like the monocle of Sir Austen Chamberlain (TIME, Feb. 15). It is a trademark, a talisman, the badge of an intelligence which views humanity with graceful hauteur and interprets it with charm. A vegetarian, because it hurts his conscience to eat anything he might have patted, Cinemactor Arliss wears high shoes, likes slang, has never driven an automobile, hopes some day to be knighted...
...military junta of twelve officers, the oldest of whom is 42, the youngest 18, took over the government, inaugurated Vice President General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez as Chief of State. General Martinez, a model General, is not only an officer: he is a vegetarian, a temperance advocate, an authority on agricultural reform. Even so the U. S. State Department refused to recognize him last week. Within 48 hours after the revolution the only visible signs were gaping holes in the Presidential Palace and the fact that cautious motorists traveled about the streets with flags of truce on their radiators...
Girls & Vegetables. An observation: Vegetarian co-eds at the University of Colorado have more efficient digestive apparatus than their meat-eating school mates.?Dr. Glen Raymond Wakeham of Boulder...
...Many vagaries of diet are advised by food faddists which run from nothing but grapes to almost nothing but oranges? through purely vegetarian, largely meat, fat-poor, salt-poor, vitamin-rich, sugar-poor, carbohydrate-rich, only milk and largely nut diets?with the expectancy that soon someone will exploit a blubber diet. . . . All these dietary regimens seem to succeed in ratio to the psychological influence of the adviser and the psychopathic complex of the advisee." He advised merely eating less ordinary foods and being satisfied with a pound a week loss of weight...