Word: castor
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Modern Hunt. Since the supply of musk has never met the demand, perfumers have always looked for substitutes. They discovered that many animals have musky-smelling lure glands. Beaver glands yield castor, which is widely used. So is loud-smelling civet. Perfume chemists once eyed skunks, encouraged by the fact that many people do not mind a distant skunk smell on a frosty morning. But the perfumers finally gave up on skunks: their scent is basically a defensive weapon rather than a sex lure. Muskrat glands, a cheap by-product of the fur trade, did work. The muskrat substance...
...banana belt too, Dictator Somoza has been trying to get right with Spruille Braden. Asked last week about charges that he had tyrannized (and plundered) Nicaragua, he replied: "These little countries are like little children. When a boy's sick you've got to force castor oil down him whether he likes it or not. After he's been to the toilet a few times he'll be all right...
...high-school girls - there were about 15 of them-were dressed for a tea party, but they carried long bundles containing paddles, and pails for vomiting. In the corner of the room one girl was mixing a drink out of castor oil, cold cooking grease, coffee grounds, raw oysters and mackerels' eyes...
...choked and retched. Two girls held her shoulders. They told her that if she vomited, she would have to drink it back. Some of the castor oil started coming out of her nose. The girls told her: 'You goat, you have to drink...
Consumer's Research. In Clifton, N.J., Roland Michaud, 2½, discovered the family medicine chest, ate 32 aspirin tablets, drank a bottle of cough medicine, huge doses of castor oil and cod liver oil, had his stomach pumped out, felt fine...