Word: beane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Curtis Bean Ball, 42, first husband of Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger; and Katharine Miller Leas, 22, Haverford, Pa. socialite; in Philadelphia...
Another explanation for tooth decay was offered by Dr. E. F. Briggs of Bangor, Me. The parathyroids (small bean-shaped glands surrounding the thyroid) regulate the amount of calcium absorbed by the body. Emotions, claimed imaginative Dentist Briggs, influence the parathyroids. "If a young man is disappointed in love, his teeth may decay in a few months." he said. "The emotions that cause decay are those that depress. . . . Middle-aged patients who suddenly present caries (tooth decay) . . . invariably have . . . passed through a period in which they had extra work, deep anxiety or added responsibility...
...Henry Thoreau says," Grandma would begin, and Bertha's heart would sink; she figured (rightly most times) that it meant beans again. Bertha's favorite poem (secretly) was a parody of Emerson, reading By the rude bridge that arched the flood . . . Here once the bean-fed Thoreau stood. . . . She was envious rather than horrified by cannibal stories. Grandma Griswold's favorite horror story was about a deacon who wanted a Cooked Meal at night and, mind you, got up the next morning and wanted another...
...dilate the pupils, paralyzing the muscles of accommodation. Chief objection to homatropine is that its effects sometimes last as long as 36 hours. Dr. Lyle Stephenson Powell of Lawrence, Kans. followed homatropine with small quantities of Benzedrine sulfate or with eserine (a drug derived from the African Calabar bean) in an alkaline solution similar to human tears. Result: quick-acting drops. Within four hours some patients were able to read newspapers again...
Engaged. Curtis Bean Dall, 42, first husband of Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger; to Katharine Miller Leas, 22, Haverford, Pa. socialite...