Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl reclining on a coach looks more like Steig's stuff, but no, it's another of Borges. Utrillo's contribution had best be called "four big hips going to grub" than "Auberge". And, gentle readers, if you see the "Magnetic Cultivation of Planets," in Paul Klee's little brain child then please come to the Vagabond's Tower. Rare souls are always welcome...
...quieting maniacs, drug addicts, alcoholics. Some years ago the late Dr. Robert Ernest House of Ferris, Tex. discovered, on administering scopolamine during an obstetrical case, that his patient was babbling things which she would not ordinarily have told. It seemed that the drug, by a selective action on the brain centres, inhibited a person's ability to withhold information from a questioner. In addition it was found that scopolamine, like actual hypnosis, might dredge up forgotten facts from the unconscious. Police hesitated to use the stuff because it was fatal if mishandled and because evidence obtained by means...
...same reason, little girl, that we kill of pigs, plow corn under, and then haven't food to feed the needy. It's logic a la brain trust...
Alice didn't know what 'logic a la brain trust' meant; but suspected that it was French and didn't matter anyway...
...Painless or painful, the infection from such sinuses drops into the throat, slips into the lungs and stomach, is responsible for many diseases of the chest, asthma, arthritis, various skin abnormalities, dull and irritable wits. In children from 6 to 15, chronic sinusitis often develops, occasionally infects the eyes, brain, skull, lungs...