Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cavalcade at Drury Lane, in which Playwright Noel Coward takes a champagne-elated heroine (Actress Mary Clare) from the Boer War through the World War and up to Depression in a series of dream and nightmare interludes, rose-tinted, bawdy, poignant, acid. His Majesty, who likes thrills, has been rumored about to knight Nerve-Tweaker Coward...
...should be kept low, not eliminated, but rigidly restrained. The diet elements that should be stressed are fruit, milk and vegetables. Raw vegetables, celery and lettuce, are also essential. That is what we know as 'bulk' or 'roughage.' Those elements provide the lime, eliminate the acid, that is the final solution, not only to dental health, but physical fitness...
...consciences uneasy, called the palsy "Jake paralysis." Medical research confirmed their suspicions. Everyone afflicted was a drinker of Jamaica ginger, as an intoxicant or a medicine (TIME, March 24, 1930). Followed a frenzied search by the Government for the specific cause. Chemists eventually revealed the poison as the phosphoric acid ester of tricresol. Its inclusion in the beverage was a manufacturers' accident. Manufacturers were indicted (TIME, July...
...gasp and cough. He shouted "Sulphur!" and led a stampede of passengers down the stairs. Motorists complained to police that particles of the smoke had burned tiny holes in the tops of their automobiles. Scared pedestrians felt stinging sensations in their faces & hands, found their clothing dotted with acid burns...
...flight, the pressure expelling the Ti CL 4 through a nozzle at the rear. On contact with the atmosphere, the liquid is changed to a cloudlike vapor. Under "unusual" atmospheric conditions, it is said, the tetrachloride joins with moisture in the air to form hydroscopic smoke particles containing hydrochloric acid which may damage leather or rubber compositions, bright dyes, cloth fabric other than wool. Chemical warfare experts of the Army stated that soldiers habitually handle Ti CL 4 without injury to hands or uniforms...