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...held South Pacific island. Having been pushed around for years in the U.S., Sam is cynical and rancorous, indifferent to who wins the war, delighted that, because of his dark skin, he can pose as a native. He finds a pretty Negro missionary girl and becomes a contented lotus-eater...
...your child is slow with building blocks, but quick on tantrums, he may be a lead eater. Many a parent knows that baby should not be given toys glorified with lead paint. But not all parents realize that children thwarted in this respect may start chewing lead paint off windowsills and other places. (Parents make a mistake when they carefully repaint cribs with lead-containing paint.) And not many doctors realize that one consequence of the plumbic passion in children may be stupidity. Last week doctors and parents learned the worst from an article in the American Journal of Diseases...
...drugstore pill-eater can ensue health by taking the entire list, but if he is to buy wisely he has much to learn of both chemistry and medicine. As with the patent medicines of a former day, the greatest harm is the waste of money...
...after the first run, she was ready. She was down the runway and off. Eddie Allen tucked up her legs and she whisked away from the field, slim, slick, slightly bent in her fore-and-aft line so that her nose drooped like an ant-eater's. An hour later she had landed at Muroc Lake and the Army Air Forces...
From these brief maxims young Washington was clearly a fussy eater. "Spit [not] forth the Stones of any fruit Pye," he warned. "Cleanse not your Teeth with the Table Cloth." Washington also barred spitting during meals ("except there's a Necessity for it") and getting rid of edibles by throwing them under the table...