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...Britain's House of Commons, the talk got around to the old question: should a schoolboy ever be beaten? Laborite Peter Freeman, president of the Vegetarian Society of Great Britain, wanted to forbid the "brutalizing" practice...
...tangerines ("The method, alas! is beyond the reach of the world's hungry hordes"). Another, Bhaduri Mahasaya ("The Levitating Saint"), often hung in the air, meditating without visible means of support. Another, called Krishnananda, shared his hermitage with a lioness, which he had taught to appreciate a strictly vegetarian diet and to utter the mystical word "Aum" (meaning "cosmic vibratory power") "in a deep, attractive growl...
...alarmed Mohandas K. Gandhi offered advice to the women which, for a vegetarian, seemed surprising: the only way they could avoid dishonor, he said, was to bite their tongues or hold their breath until they died.* If that would not work, he snapped, let them take poison. He was feeling crotchety, anyway, and "thoroughly ashamed" of an error he had made in a letter, calling the Moslem League "the authoritative representative" (of an overwhelming majority of Indian Moslems), instead of "the most authoritative representative." Peevishly, he muttered that a man who made such mistakes probably would not live...
...minor items translated for the first time. In 1900, when he was a young and promising writer of stories, Gorky went to call on the great novelist, later spent some time near Tolstoy's home in the Crimea. Perhaps he had expected to find a dull old vegetarian disguised in a peasant's smock and spouting platitudes. He found instead a henpecked, shriveled, electrifying man with "shaggy" eyebrows, "wonderful" hands, a passion for card games, a "shocking" coarseness of speech...
...written 100 piano compositions. Most of her friends, she says, are grownups. Her Negro novelist father, George Schuyler (Black-No-More, Slaves Today) and her white Texas-born mother used to credit her genius to such things as her diet of raw meat, but now she is a vegetarian for what she calls "esthetic reasons...