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...Budapest, one Alice Posies' girl friends cried over her coffin last week. First of her set to practice a new fashion, she had abandoned stockings; had painted her legs with fantastic designs. The paint stain, like the shoe dye that poisoned Cobbler-Musician Cole of Laporte City, Iowa (TIME, April 4), polluted her blood...
MARION J. DYE...
...faces on which an absence of reverence could be descried, stood before the three great mosques facing the Registan, mocking the commands of Mohammed by their shameless presence. Soon the venerable priesthood emerged rampant, the effect of their imprecations being enhanced by the fact that in Samarkand old men dye their beards pink with henna...
...analine tint last week and at once took so long a walk that his feet perspired. Soon he developed a dizzy headache and felt sleepy. Local doctors found him dying, his entire body tinted a "brilliant blue, as though it had been painted." The theory was that the shoe dye had colored him so. Really, the aniline in the dye had fixed itself onto the red corpuscles of the man's blood, as does carbon monoxide gas from motor car exhausts, and prevented his blood oxygenating itself. He was blue because he was cyanosed. (This is an occasional accident...
...Berlin, Dr. W. Christ, experimenter, stained a quart of water with a harmless blue dye; made a neighbor swallow the full quart. The doctor wanted to know how fast the stomach got rid of the water. So at intervals, he ran a rubber tube down the neighbor's throat to his stomach and drained off a little water. He learned: in 15 minutes half the water was gone, in 30 minutes four-fifths...