Word: vegetarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vegetarian, he says "it is a good spiritual practise and raises the conscience to a higher level." He scoffs at people who are afraid they won't get enough meat because of rationing...
Repeal put Childs back into the money - but not before Founder William had almost ruined it. Distraught by his brother Samuel's death (in 1925) and by financial troubles, William took the cure at Battle Creek, Mich. There Dr. John Harvey Kellogg sold him on 1) a vegetarian diet, 2) the evils of drinking water at mealtime, 3) the evils of tobacco at any time. William tried to sell Childs customers on a similar Spartan bill of fare. General sales resistance finally roused hungry Childs stockholders to push him out of the company in 1929. Nine years later...
...year in high school, but he began haunting the New York Public Library. A book on hypnotism made him a successful practitioner on friends and neighbors. He ploughed through such subjects as cryptography, graphology, occultism, oriental philosophy, esthetics, acoustics. A book on dietetics converted him temporarily into a fanatical vegetarian. He has learned all he knows about composition out of books...
...change of diet," said snow-bearded Vegetarian George Bernard Shaw of the meat shortage, "will do Americans good. They eat far too much of meat and everything else. I must say it's very kind of them, but I wish Americans would stop sending me parcels of food. Apparently they're all under the impression that we are starving in this country." Meat rationing in Britain he found "fine . . . fine, but it doesn't go far enough. I'd abolish meat altogether. It's true no doubt that beef made Old England what...
...many of them, including Margaret Wilson, live in up-to-date houses in the town. Her religion, not concerned with mortifying the flesh, permits her to wear American clothes, read magazines and newspapers, puff an after-dinner cigaret. When she first arrived in India she tried to be a vegetarian, but she lost so much weight that the Mother of the Universe put her back on meat. She spends most of her time trying to acquire "a state of serenity." Each evening she goes to the ashram to spend half an hour in meditation to achieve this purpose. She finds...