Word: beane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first night of "The Late Christopher Bean" at the Plymouth Theatre marked the return of Pauline Lord to the Boston stage for the first time in six years. Miss Lord is one of America's most capable actresses, and while "The Late Christopher Bean" is far from being her greatest success, it at least must leave her reputation intact...
...welcoming remarks of President Eliot in the Nineties based on admonitions against sleeping with one's windows shut, and his recommendations of bean soup as a nourishing food are of the past. Instead, the new student hears of the case of the undergraduate who made the startling discovery that he studied better when he exercised; of the cut-loose prep school boy who turned playboy when he found freedom as a Freshman, and of his fate at mid-years, and that of the four hundred others "in this very room that will never graduate from Harvard...
Haitians call deliberate blanching "ouarization." They call darkening "haitianization." Jean-Joseph Dauphin "ouarized" himself by accident last summer. He asked his father, a brewer of herbs, for some "ouarit" beans to cure his asthma. The ouarit, sometimes called sea bean, is an oval, black-striped red bean about the size of a large lima bean. Jean-Joseph Ysmeon Dauphin's father told him to take only a speck of ouarit at a time, because the bean was an aphrodisiac. Jean-Joseph is 57. Suffering, he decided to kill or cure. He took a whole bean each day for five...
President Stenio Vincent of Haiti called on "ouarized" Jean-Joseph Dauphin. Haitian doctors examined him and the ouarit bean. They suspect traces of cyanide in the bean, hope U. S. investigators will discover the cause of the transformation...
...father, a pioneer homesteader in Kansas and Colorado. He drummed the Southwest for a wholesale grocery firm in Joplin, Mo. Twenty-five years ago he settled in California. He was twice elected to the Los Angeles City Council by the businessman vote. When Supervisor Jack Bean mocked him as ''the grocery boy who made good,'' Mr. Shaw wrested the supervisorship from him by 80,000 votes. He was chairman of the County Board of Supervisors when elected Mayor last week. During this long public service no serious question had been raised about his citizenship. His explanation...