Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...luscious Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, said to be at odds with her longtime companion, Charlie Chaplin, turned up to visit him at Pebble Beach, Calif., where the grey-haired little comedian has his summer house. One day last week Miss Goddard went out to play golf at the Cyprus Point Club. There she registered as "Mrs. Charlie Chaplin." While Hollywood wondered whether this at last was tacit admission of what Holly wood had long tacitly taken to be fact-that Paulette Goddard is and has been for several years Charlie Chaplin's third wife*-the talkative cinemactor once more...
...diabetes. The physician, Dr. Richard Geddes Large, promptly dosed the man with insulin and asked him what he had been taking all these years in its place. The man said it was an infusion in hot water of the root of a spiny, prickly shrub called devil's-club (Echinopanax horridus). British Columbia Indians take potions of devil's-club for whatever ails them...
...read the report which Dr. Large and a chemist colleague. Dr. H. N. Brocklesby, published in last week's Canadian Medical Association Journal, it looked as though another form of diabetes relief, this time herbal, had come out of Canada. What element in the vegetable devil's-club made it apparently do the same job as the glandular product insulin was not revealed...
Insulin must be injected hypodermically because, when swallowed, it is digested and rendered impotent to reduce sugar in the blood. But Drs. Large and Brocklesby say "there is not a great deal of difference between the results of giving extract of devil's-club by mouth or syringe." Thus they premise an easier and possibly a cheaper life for diabetics, who must forever take medication...
...upstate New Yorker and a Republican, Edward John Noble worked for a time as a reporter on the Watertown Daily Times, became the best treasurer the Gouverneur Athenian Society ever had, then packed himself off to Yale. Broke when he entered, he organized and ran an eating club, marked himself as likely to succeed by being graduated (1905) with a financial surplus. He started making Life Savers 25 years ago in a one-room loft in Manhattan, stirring the peppermint flavor into the mixture himself...