Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal. No sign has he given yet of desiring to use them, for they would scare capital, upset the market for his bonds. But the temptation will be ever present. For the alternative, higher taxes, will stir up popular opposition and a good part of the Brain Trust fears that their effect would be deflationary...
Long lines of green monsters with swollen heads symbolized the Brain Trust. They were dropping gold into troughs at which silk-hatted pigs were feeding. At the lower left Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was strangling the Goddess Ceres. Behind him a tax collector was removing a citizen's shirt. In the centre sat Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau?a clown juggling money with a lap full of gold bricks. General Hugh S. Johnson was jumping irascibly on the roped figure of Industry. Also to be seen were Madam Secretary Perkins, Postmaster General Farley, Uncle Sam on a cross, dying cattle...
...wasting their time debating anxiously such a minor factor as the alcoholic strength of a drink which gets its chief effect from wormwood (absinthium) which contains the powerful narcotic absinthin. The alcohol in absinthe acts as the carrier and catalyst of the drug in its subtle assault upon the brain. Neither wormy nor a wood, wormwood is a bitter-tasting weed fairly common in Europe and the U. S. under such local names as madderwort, mugwort, ming-wort, warmot and wermuth. Swiss farmers never think of buying absinthe, but make it at home from their own weeds. Swiss law, while...
...bone in the brain is an exceedingly rare freak. Yet it may happen when a cell from a cancerous bone floats through the blood and takes root in the brain. Last week the American Journal of Cancer carried the report of such a bone in the brain of a man who originally had a cancer in his left thigh bone...
After consultation the physicians, sympathetic with mid-Ohio's mores, decided that the most kindly thing was to call the affliction a chronic meningoencephalitis. That meant an inflammation of the brain and its membranous envelope. The man's loquacity was the outward manifestation of a brain unhitched and running wild. A course of artificial fever might corral his wandering wits. Again it might...