Word: brews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Durable Spencer Tracy, a cinemactor who can really act, plays Dr. Jekyll and Friend Hyde for more than they are worth. When bright Dr. Jekyll decides to put all his evils in one basket by swallowing the laboratory brew which turns him into the dreadful Mr. Hyde, the result is not horrifying. It is laughable when he addresses his captured barmaid (Ingrid Bergman) as "my tired fungus"; revolting when he spits grape skins in her pretty face; hammy when he chuckles fiendish "Heh, heh, hehs" at his lecherous face in the mirror...
...making childbearing easy had finally been given a scientific once-over by two experimenters: Dr. J. H. Burn and Pharmacologist E. R. Withell. In a series of delicate experiments, they tried raspberry-leaf tea on a number of cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits. Results: in almost every case the brew relaxed the uterus, stopped muscular contractions. The scientists agreed that the tea would probably be valuable in relieving painful menstruation. The dosage recommended by herbalists, they said, is 10 to 20 oz. of hot tea made from 1 oz. of dried leaves* steeped in 20 oz. of boiling water...
Congress was mixing one of its cure-all patent medicines last week for a social bellyache, the labor situation. Labor leaders did not like the whiffs they got from the brew. To A.F. of L. President William Green, the legislation smelt like "a violation of the Constitution." C.I.O. President Philip Murray called it an effort to clamp upon "the total American economy a rigid status of enforced labor." The May, Connally and Vinson bills, said labor, jeopardized the right to picket, established compulsory arbitration, deprived labor of its right to strike...
...following students received certificates for completion of the Harvard course in Naval Science and Tactics, and will receive their commissions later; Donald A. Brew, East Orange, N. J.; John B. Reece, Chestnut Hill, Mass,; and Theodore F. Whitmarsh, Now York City...
...money began rolling in, Organizer Dorothy launched a series of "galloping tea parties,'' at which Dorothies drank, paid, went forth chain-letter fashion to brew more tea for more Dorothies. To date, the Provinces have been Blitz-teaed some 20,000 times, always with a Dorothy as hostess, though often with other-named guests...