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...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...
...NICOTINE ACID IN THE TREATMENT OF PELLAGRA, by Dr. Clarence Nall Bogart of Forrest City, Ark.; THE TREATMENT OF SUBCLINICAL AND CLASSIC PELLAGRA, by Drs. Tom Douglas Spies, William Bennett Bean of Cincinnati, Ohio, & Dr. Robert Edwards Stone of Birmingham...
...measure, sells a sizable portion abroad for needed foreign exchange. Thus last year, while the nation on paper produced enough for home use, Italy in fact suffered a wheat shortage. Bakers, unable to purchase sufficient wheat flour, eked out their dough with substitutes like corn flour, bean flour, ground lentils or ground ceci, yellow, bean-like pellets. The Government legalized this adulteration up to 20% but bakers took advantage of the practice, began turning out queer tasting, colored loaves only 50% wheat flour. Public grumbling grew, scores were clapped into prison for their protests and finally Il Duce stepped...