Word: catchup
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Peptic ulcer victims, who have long been condemned by most physicians to insipid Sippy diets,* should throw away their lists of forbidden foods, feel free to eat fried fish and potatoes topped with catchup, if that happens to be what they like. So said the University of Oklahoma's Dr. Stewart G. Wolf last week. Main thing, he told the American Academy of General Practice, is not to restrict what the ulcer patient eats but to do something positive about how often he eats-and that should be every two or three hours, counting the inevitable glass of milk...
...went and, hiccuping quietly to herself, sat in the phone booth at the corner drugstore−she thought Dr. Samuels might be in New York City trying to get in touch with her. While she waited, she -read suggestions that would-be-helpful people had written to her: try catchup in beer, try holding your ears, try wishing on an inverted teacup. Said Miss Mayer: "Such superstition...
...contrast common stockholders (the management sold its employes 64% of its own stock) got 719,926 snares of new common and a promise of a $1 "catchup" dividend, if earned. Their total original investment was about...
...Newark. N. J., as Euro-American Corp., obtained credit with impressive but wholly fraudulent financial statements, proceeded to buy $100,000 worth of groceries. When the creditors finally went around to see why their bills were not paid, the only tangible asset they could find was a case of catchup. The rest of the goods had long since been sold, the proceeds pocketed by the Brothers Ziongas. Later it was learned that the Ziongas ring had similarly and simultaneously diverted another $75,000 worth of groceries through a dummy concern in Trenton...
When a West Pointer speaks of "growley" he is referring either to tomato catchup or to a blush...