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Manna of St. Nicholas di Bari made by an Italian woman of the 17th Century was a favorite cosmetic for women. It was a colorless, tasteless liquid, kept on women's dressing tables. After some 600 affectionate husbands of gaddy wives had died with terrible stomach gripes, authorities discovered that the Manna of St. Nicholas di Bari was a preparation of arsenic sold to impatient wives by the Tiffana. She was executed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Manna | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

Meanwhile Deputy Farinacci, Secretary General of the Fascist party, speaking at Bari, scattered affirmatives from which the direction of his party's "impetuous advance" might be charted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: By Force | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

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