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...ivory and gold by Dr. John Greenwood of New York who had considerable correspondence with the toothless President about them. Dr. Greenwood advised rubbing the ivories with a cedar stick or chalk if they got too dark from port wine. If they got light, he said, soak them in broth, liquor or porter...
...brightest legal mind in Kansas." When bibliomancy revealed to Carry that she must demolish by "hatchetation" the blind tigers of Medicine Lodge, Kiowa, Enterprise; when she was jailed for being a nuisance and refused to return home until she had destroyed the nation's supply of "hell broth," Preacher Nation divorced her. Carry, considering herself "just a bulldog at the feet of Jesus Christ, barkin' and bitin' at what He don't like," carried on, founded a home for widows and orphans of drunkards at Kansas City, became president of the W. C. T. U., stumped...
...pages of his latest fanciful vignette within the covers of a single book. Hard on the reader's wrist, its insistent author's perverse philosophizing is liable to be hard on many a reader's patience too. "Folks 'ud rayther brew their own broth theyselves then be fed wi' all the Milk o' Paradise" is a bit of Penny Pitches' Glastonbury wisdom that fits the odd-lot characters in Author Powys' romance. Glastonbury's broth begins to bubble & boil at the reading of the late Canon William Crow's will...
...candle-lit surgery in London, Dr. Jekyll brews broth of Hell, gulps down his potation, and with many a phthisical cough turns into "Mr. 'Ide," the terror of Limehouse. In Germany, Bavarian merrymaking is stilled as Frankenstein's monster stalks abroad. And somewhere in the English countryside, Count Dracula pushes up his mouldering coffin-lid, flicks the gravedirt from his shoulders, and adjusts his cravat for a pleasant evening...
...13th day the first man died, raving; on the 14th day their water gave out, two more died. They tried to make a condenser to get fresh water, but had little success. On the iyth day the chief engi- neer died. With part of his body they made a broth. "The salt in the sea water in which the flesh was boiled was absorbed by the flesh, leaving the broth free from salt and not unpleasant to taste. The flesh was like tough veal." On the 23d day the survivors drank the blood from a fresh corpse. Next day they...