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...good sense. Unusual among politicians. Dr. Browne says what he thinks; unique among cookbook authors, he gives many a flat decision on moot questions of food & drink. "Beaten biscuits are biscuits horribly beaten before they are cooked and may be used as golf-balls afterward.'' Of a Clover Club cocktail he says, "It's an awful mixture"; but tells how to make it and adds: "This will make three cocktails if there can be found three people who want them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Near-Masterpiece-- | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...pungent odor, is used in many perfumes. "Musk" was originally the name of musk deer perfume, later was transferred to all animals and plants which had a similar odor. Some musk animals: muskrat, musk duck, musk beetle, musk shrew, musk turtle, musk kangaroo. Plants: musk mallow, musk root, musk clover, musk orchis, musk okra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Musky Immigrants | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...boat sailing down a winding stream. You watch the banks as they pass you. You went by a grove of maple trees upstream. But you can't see them now, so you saw them in the past, didn't you? You're watching a field of clover now. It's before your eyes at this moment, in the present. But you don't know yet what's around the bend in the stream there ahead of you . . . you can't see them until the future. . . . But I'm in the sky above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Two Times? | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...done" particular by one located in of a our fine best residential interior decorators; tapestries, oriental rugs, and price less paintings. The liquor is the best Canada has to offer. Would Mr. Liggett like a cocktail? We can offer baits" "Tin "stingers," Roofs" and, ''Clover if he is Clubs," a "Dr. lover of the Eisen-drama, a "Strange Intercourse." Please print this protest so that the citizens of our fair city will not be objects of scorn and shame. TIME'S Minneapolis, records Minn. reveal no HAMMOND EGZS Minneapolis a lish unverified Minneapolis statements, especially subscriber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minneapolis Speakeasies | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...know, my dear--have wailed long and loudly about the rights of other citizens to remain sweet-smelling. Farmers complain that skunks dig up bumble bees and not only make them so ill-tempered that they attack without warning, but destroy them as well, preventing the pollenization of the clover. Against such charges, even the skunks retire in confusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A REALLY LOUD ISSUE | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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