Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experience is that no one can drink alcohol without injury. If people have to drink, they are done for as far as I am concerned. Smoking and drinking are both the same; they destroy the brain cells...
Nevertheless, Chauncey Mitchell Depew's was a full life, based on an alert brain, a well-guarded stomach and a useful diaphragm. The diaphragm's usefulness was revealed to him by a schoolmaster at Peekskill, N. Y., his birthplace. The other schoolboys recited their orations. Chauncey would offer original compositions. His master began an oratorical training which was completed at Yale and on the political stump. He declaimed his way into the New York Assembly. On the advice of Commodore Vanderbilt, whose railroads he was to help run for the rest of his life, he renounced politics...
Lean beef, fat beef, beef tongue, liver, brain, marrow: that is what two men ate and it is all they ate: for 21 days, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, famed Arctic explorer; for 57 days, his friend and erstwhile companion, Karsten Anderson, whose present business is orange growing. Last week, the trial done, Dr. Stefansson went straight to Fairfield, Conn., where after a dinner of beef tongue by choice, he testimonialed: "Before the experiment I felt lackadaisical on getting up in the morning but now I feel like jumping out of bed and getting right to work...
...Brain," Professor Parker, Geology Lecture Room...
...feeble wandering of her fading brain...