Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...howls of pain from their victims. One day, while lounging around a hotel lobby, a lush-bearded young man from New Hampshire named Nehemiah Kenison met a Scotsman who had a new, painless method of removing corns. Instead of digging with a scalpel, he first softened the corn in acid, then carefully shelled it out with a dull bone blade...
Wistful as Chaplin, baggy in the rear, Cantinflas is rated the finest comic Mexico has yet produced. To the Government he is an annoying fellow. A few weeks ago in the course of rehearsing a revue he introduced an acid skit on Mexican election scandals. Although his show had not yet opened, the Government promptly closed the Folies Bergere Theatre where Cantinflas holds forth. Protesting the ban as a violation of his civil liberties, Cantinflas spoke softly but sternly to a couple of officials, soon persuaded them that his followers would not permit the Government to gag him. The Folies...
Last year Oscar Bach announced he had hit upon a process for coloring tough, corrosion-resistant 18-8 (18% chromium, 8% nickel) stainless steel. In the Bachite process, the steel is first "pickled" (cleaned with acid), then coated in a chemical bath and heated. Depending on the degree of baking, the coated steel turns black, gold, bronze, purple, blue, red or green, the color becoming an integral part of the surface. Oscar Bach will not reveal the chemicals in the coating bath. "The formula," says he, "is so simple I'm almost ashamed of it." The Bachite process...
...Noel Coward was doing in the U. S. Said Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information Harold Nicolson: Coward was expected to call on President Roosevelt, "possesses contacts with certain sections of opinion which are very difficult to reach through ordinary sources." Said the London Daily Mirror's acid Cassandra: "Mister Coward, with his stilted mannerisms, his clipped accents and his vast experience of the useless froth of society, may be making contacts with the American equivalents . . . but as a representative for democracy he's like a plate of caviar in a carman's pull...
Vincent's disease, Dr. King concluded, may be a form of "pre-pellagra." Yet, since most Englishmen eat plenty of lean meat and fish, he found it "difficult to understand how there could be a [nicotinic acid] deficiency." Perhaps, he suggested, some people for unknown chemical reasons cannot absorb nicotinic acid from their food and need an extra supply...