Word: castor
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Nutmegs, or castor beans, around the neck or in the pocket to prevent indigestion and colic...
...dresses up as a continental dancing master, who masquerades as Mussolini with his dirty shirts-Disraeli or the man who had to go to Italy for a name for his organization and to Germany for his bullying spirit? "Some people say 'Leave Mosley alone; he will never become castor oil king of England.'* Mosley wants to turn England into a Communist camp. He breathes Bolshevism at every step...
...Last February one George Richardson, expelled Mosleyite Fascist, sued for damages claiming that the Mosleyites not only copied Benito Mussolini's Black Shirts but also II Duce's notorious punishment of forcing victims to drink pints of castor...
...lizards on Komodo in box traps baited with deer carcasses. They loosed all but eight, gave four by agreement to Java's Sourabaya Zoo. One of the remaining four died of seasickness on the way to the U. S. Another, ailing, was restored by a stiff dose of castor...
...doses of castor oil gravely injured a U. S. Army doctor's career last week. Lieut. Colonel Bertram Foster Duckwall of Fort Clayton, Canal Zone ordered an oil purge for an enlisted man with an injured foot. Another soldier suffering from appendicitis received a similar dose. Seriously injudicious were those purgings, decided a board of Army officers who court-martialed Lieut. Colonel Duckwall and ordered his promotion to a colonelcy, when due, delayed a full year...