Word: belladonna
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While most of the words that Colby discusses are suggested by his readers, Colby turned the tables in 1942 by asking them: What are the most euphonious English words? The top ten by popular vote: mother, memory, Cellophane, bellboy, melancholy, belladonna, flamingo, wilderness, tambourine, lavender. Last week Logophile Colby reported the results of a new readers' poll. Mother had slipped a bit, but was still listed among the top ten. There were eight new favorites. The 1950 hit parade: melody, lullaby, mimosa, memory, mellow, mother, moonbeam, murmuring, beautiful, lanolin...
...left foot dragged the ground, he developed a stoop. He suffered from an infected sinus, swollen glands in the neck, continual headaches and stomach cramps. To relieve these pains, his physician gave him a proprietary drug compounded of strychnine and belladonna. It was called Dr. Koester's Antigas Pills...
...cream and reciting snatches of patriotic poetry to his wife. She dreamed of passion when not stuffing herself with lush pastry. Grandson Franz-Ferdinand was goggling at a peep show entitled: "For Men Only . . . Piquant Photographs." Granddaughters Wally and Adrienne were in the boudoir, shining up their eyes with belladonna. In short, the Austrian Empire was on its last legs...
Department of Agriculture plans call for 500 acres of belladonna to be planted this year in east central states, notably Pennsylvania. In 1939 scarcely a handful of belladonna seed could be found in the U.S., but that was carefully grown and made possible a good 1942 crop whose product, used for surgical therapy, was above U.S. Pharmacopoeia standards...
...remarkable drug for holding down chronic symptoms is Bulgarian belladonna, steeped in white wine. (An American substitute is now available.) In many cases the drug relieves insomnia, helps build up strength, improves speech...