Word: vegetarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless Minister of Health Aneurin Bevin mended his ways, Churchill growled, "he would be as great a curse to this country in time of peace as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war." He called vegetarian Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade "a national disaster," cried that "these ethereal beings [vegetarians] do produce a very great volume of intellectual output with a minimum of working costs in fuel...
Mary Purnell, vigorous, 83-year-old "Queen" of the City of David and widow of "King" Benjamin Purnell, founder of the vegetarian, ball-playing House of David, told her bearded subjects that Adolf Hitler had somehow conveyed a personal message to her. Said Hitler: "I'm dead. Stop the war. I'm sorry...
...nature's cycle has returned to the vegetarian stage once more, and Yard-birds awake at an early hour can glimpse the first tender leaves of lettuce peeking up between Harvard and Hollis. Meat-eaters look forward eagerly to the expected influx of rabbit...
Upton Sinclair, 65, vegetarian, moralist, Socialist, muckraker, politician, agnostic, Californian, abstainer, feminist, movie producer, violinist, physical culturist, antiFascist, antiCommunist; friend of Jack London, Theodore Roosevelt and Albert Einstein; one of the most prolific U.S. authors (67 books, 500 pamphlets); prohibitionist son of a bibulous father and twice-married critic of American marital habits, last week gave book-length vent to his latest enthusiasm: Franklin Roosevelt...
...York Times, put a $1,000 price on the privilege, then invited Saroyan to tea on a nonbusiness basis. After long pondering over what tribute whimsey should pay wit, Saroyan finally loaded himself down with $20 worth of greengrocer specialties, including hothouse melon, asparagus, mushrooms. Roared Vegetarian Shaw "Everybody seems to think I'm starving...