Word: vegetarians
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...that meat was scarce but many Britons blamed him for that when he looked coldly through his half-moon glasses and announced that he did not consider meat "an edible substance." His very name suggested the sound of a crunching cold raw carrot, which was, in fact, one of Vegetarian Cripps's favorite staples...
Toward Hot Water. The man who would replace Sir Stafford Cripps wore the same school tie (Winchester). Hugh Gaitskell, 44, is 17 years younger than Cripps and in many respects different. He is neither vegetarian nor teetotaler. While Cripps appears unyielding, Gaitskell is modest, unassuming and courteous...
...Hospital, he soon got into an argument about his 74-year-old once-red beard, which the anesthetists wanted snipped. Shaw won by having the offending whiskers plastered to his face. Next day, in his cream-and-green private room, with his fractured femur fastened together by steel pins, Vegetarian Shaw sat up to munch on nuts and fruit, listened with gusto over a portable radio to BBC reports on his progress. When a nurse finished washing him, Shaw grumbled that he wanted a bath certificate: "Otherwise someone will come along tomorrow and want to do the same thing again...
...treated at two places outside the National Health Service." It added accusingly: "He is not the only person prominent in the Labor movement who has gone outside the National Health Service." This was an unkind cut too. It was aimed at Sir Stafford Cripps, who went to a Swiss vegetarian clinic last year to soothe his troubled stomach...
...concern ever since Founder Julius Garfinckel opened his shop on Washington's F Street in 1905. He stocked it with such things as French handbags, fine furs, lingerie and jewelry, built up such prestige that Garfinckel's soon became the most fashionable store in the capital. A vegetarian and health faddist, he kept his office desk on an open-air terrace except in coldest winter. He built his business to a gross of $3.2 million without ever running display advertisements in a newspaper or magazine...