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...taproom and the railway shop, became Secretary General of the Fascist Party. His single-track mind knew and knows only devotion to Mussolini and ruthless suppression of his enemies. Within a year he has drawn the discipline of Fascismo as tight as a drumhead. He has "governed by castor oil"?introduced into anti-Fascist throats while anti-Fascist noses were roughly tweaked by Farinacci's Selvaggi ("Savages"). He has earned the title "Right Fist of the Fascist Party." He has been denounced by Cardinal Gasparri as a "vulgar demagog." None the less, Mussolini had him made a lawyer...
Great are the dangers of habitual constipation-leading often to autointoxication, intestinal ulcers and even cancer (TIME, Dec. 7). Great too are the dangers of laxatives, purgatives and cathartics.* On the household medicine shelf is the array of epsom salts, castor oil and compound cathartic pills or their masked coordinates. The housewife has learned from a long chain of gossips to use these whenever any of her progeny complain of stomach ache, and as a rule she is safe in their use, for the really serious stomach and intestinal disorders are comparatively rare...
Treatment. No known drug will kill the parasite. The patient should take castor oil or calomel (under medical supervision), then epsom salts and intestinal antiseptics. Thereafter the doctor tries to build up the patient's constitution so it can kill off the trichinae. The disease is rarely fatal, yet always uncomfortable...
...John Doe; 46, Joe Dokes; 47, Deus faxit; 48, Oliver Joannin; 49, William Peaiso Lowell; 51, Montgomery Ward; 52, Red Mange; 55, Andy and Min 3rd; 56, She and I; 57, Stoughton Hall; 58, Jesse James and Co.; 59, Monsieur Paraclete; 60, Nestor; 61, Goldy and Dusty; 62, Castor and Polux; 63, Rough and Ready; 64, Les Deux Anes; 65, Joe Albany; 66, Solus; 67, Canta-bridgians...
...deference to reason and ingrained classicism, he contrives a confidante for Helen: when Castor and Pollux rescued their sister from her first abductor, King Theseus of Attica, they took away with them Theseus' mother, queenly Aithre. Devoted bondslave, solicitous handmaid, prescient foster mother, Aithre was at hand in the seven subtle crises of Helen's life, which crises Scholar White picks out in the poised, sophisticated chiseling of an heroic frieze, so craftily restored that the very air of antiquity moves about the figures, golden with the tang of wine...