Word: asa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...encyclopedia of food by a diet expert who loves to eat was published last week by Dr. Asa Crawford Chandler of Rice Institute, Houston, Tex. Dr. Chandler seldom counts calories, is never finicky. He claims that the flesh of rattlesnakes is "delicious and nutritious," that "grasshoppers, caterpillars and termites . . . afford wholesome food if there is no acquired aversion." Besides these odd chips of information, Dr. Chandler's book (The Eater's Digest, Farrar & Rinehart; $2.75) is packed with practical discussions on such things as digestion, nutritional diseases, bellyaches, diet during pregnancy, ravenous children, vitamins...
Like most Glasgow novels, this one is laid in Queenborough, the imaginary Virginia town which she had made as much her literary province as Hardy made Wessex or Trollope Barsetshire. It is the story of the ineffectualness of a Southern aristocrat, Asa Timberlake, who has lost his money but not his manners. The Timberlake fortune had been invested in a cigaret factory. Now factory and fortune belonged to the Standard Tobacco Company. Asa still had a job with Standard, but he never knew for how long. His wife, plain-faced Lavinia, had stooped to marry him. Later she developed...
Nearly all the characters in the book are defeated. The weak ones are crushed. But Asa's defeat is a victory, for it implies that under his apparent ineffectualness there is something stronger than his daughter's brittle bravery. Like the Greek dramatists, Novelist Glasgow believes that men's characters are men's fate, and that tragedy is never in defeat but in surrender. "An honorable end," she is fond of saying, "is the one thing that cannot be taken from...
...Herbarium, organized more than a century ago by Asa Gray, pioneer American botanist, is the greatest in America and the finest in the world in North and South American flora...
They were fleeing because mustachioed Brigadier General Asa L. Singleton noted an alarming increase of venereal disease at Fort Benning. Forthwith he laid down the law to Columbus and Phenix City: run out the tarts, or both towns would be declared "out of bounds" for Fort Benning troops...