Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People's Mouths,* Reporter Cross did for Canada approximately what Robert S. Allen did twelve years ago for the U.S. in the first Washington Merry-Go-Round. Canadians flinched and chortled at the brash impertinences and superficialities of The People's Mouths, also found many an acid tintype of their politicians. Many were aware that Cross memorized timetables and collected other useless information but few suspected the sharper side of his nature...
Dave Noyes' boat will have a stiff and acid test when it meets Cornell, Navy and Pennsylvania. The close race with M. I. T. last Saturday did not do much to inspire waves of over-confidence in the crew. And the opposition in the City of Brotherly Love will be of higher calibre than the Engineers' offerings. All the crews that Harvard will meet have been out on the water two or three weeks longer than the Crimson...
...Except for vitamins A and D, which are not manufactured chemically, are sold only as concentrates from fish-liver oils. * The five: biotin, choline, inositol, para-amino-benzoic acid, folic acid...
...Pyridoxin and pantothenic acid are the remaining known constituents of the former B-complex. They are newly developed, often omitted from multiple-vitamin preparations. Pantothenic acid is popular as a possible preventive of grey hair...
Steinberg's drawings, which have most frequently appeared in The New Yorker, have a timeless, durable, hieroglyphic quality, as if their acid comments on human affairs had eaten into stone. Steinberg has a great liking for bits of ornamental detail (they are almost his trademark) as in his drawing of Hermann Göring drenched with medals. One of the outstanding drawings in his show portrayed the two sparsely clad Axis dictators in a theater dressing room ("Benito & Adolf-Aryan Dancers...