Word: broth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this frivolity is pinned to a conventional story involving Astaire and Rogers as a couple of hoofers. Astaire has gone and joined the Navy when Miss Rogers, a fine broth of a lass, refuses to marry him on the grounds that matrimony will ruin her career. The picture depicts Astaire's return and Rogers' reconciliation, as well as a more or less uninteresting subplot about another sailor and another girl. But the characters seem happy enough all the way through, and it is evident that none of them takes the plot too seriously...
Overcoat & Broth. In the little Alsatian village of Günsbach, where he grew up, Albert Schweitzer's schoolmates looked on him as "a sprig of the gentry" because he was the parson's son. To be set apart from the other boys was an agony to him; he suffered many a whipping rather than wear an overcoat, the badge of a "gentleman." Once, after he had won a wrestling match, his opponent said: "Yes, if I got broth to eat twice a week as you do, I should be as strong as you are." From then...
Danger Is Relative. The morning of a game, when the squad gathers around the training table at 10:30 for their pre-game lunch, Chappuis manages to swallow a cupful of beef broth, but he only nibbles at the filet mignon put before him. Football is still a deadly serious and unnerving game to him, even though he has faced, as have many players on 1947 squads, worse menaces than an onrushing tackier. On Christmas Day, 1944, Sergeant Chappuis rode in a B-25 as radioman and gunner, on his first mission. The target: a railroad bridge in Italy...
TIME has certainly reached a new low. The article on Eva Peron is the devil's own broth of poison and vituperation...
...investigation's long-range aim: to isolate the cold virus and develop a vaccine. Each guest, on admission, snuffs a fluid up his nose. About 45%, used as controls, snuff only a harmless broth; the rest get virus-containing nasal washings from people with colds. Only about one-fourth of all the subjects actually come down with colds. Thus far, the doctors have no important new findings to report, but they think they have definitely established that wet feet, exposure to cold, etc. do not necessarily cause colds. The mischief is done by sneezers...