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...does not care for sweets, seldom eats desserts. But he is not finicky about his food. He eats some of whatever may be on the table. For breakfast he regularly has two eggs, three rashers of bacon, two slices of toast, orange juice. On his sedentary boating vacation, he ate quantities of baked beans, gained 7 Ib. (174 Ib. to 181 Ib.). When he returned to Washington, looking fit as a bull fiddle, he declared last week he was going to lose that excess weight at once-''by eating less...
...Less" at his first White House breakfast meant one strip of bacon instead of three. The rest of his usual breakfast dishes he ate with relish and apparent forgetfulness of his reducing regime...
...grenouilles? ("What say the frogs [of Paris]?'') was a common phrase among courtiers of Louis XVI at Versailles just before the French Revolution, referred to the fact that the Paris rabble were supposed to live like frogs in slime. Eighteenth Century Englishmen, suspecting that their French enemies ate frogs' legs, called them contemptuously "frogs...
School Children's Sleep, as recorded by Emory University's Professor Charles Glenville Giddings Jr., is most restless during the first and last half hours. Children who ate heavy evening meals moved 100 times or more during nine hours' sleep. Children who ate ordinary dinners rolled half as often. Contrary to general belief, a warm bath before going to bed does not soothe a child, but a glass of warm milk does...
...young men who were my friends . . . were killed within the next three years." At Leeds she worked erratically but well, took a First and won a research scholarship at University College in London. There she shared a study with three young men, impoverished, enthusiastic students like herself; they worked, ate, argued apparently on terms of masculine equality. When, one day, Authoress Jameson had an article accepted by the New Age she was in the seventh heaven. "That paper was the Bible of our generation. We would rather go hungry than not buy it. We quoted it. argued with...