Word: gentian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current issue of Scribner's, Mr. Furnas offers several anti-smoking aids for what they are worth. Samples: 1) wash out the mouth with a weak solution of silver nitrate which "makes a smoke taste as if it had been cured in sour milk"; 2) chew candied ginger, gentian, or camomile; 3) to occupy the hands smoke a prop cigaret...
Other manuscripts include: "Timoleon," John Marr and Other Sailors," "Billy Budd," "Jack Gentian," "The River," "Rammon the Enviable Isles," and "The Admiral of the White...
...Trinidad. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, the firm's present managing director is a grandson of Founder Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a surgeon under Blücher at Waterloo. After Napoleon's fall Johann Siegert went to Angostura in Venezuela, began making his "elixir." Only known ingredients are gentian, common bitters base, and rum. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, Albert Siegert and Krast Siegert are the only three living men who know Angostura Bitters' formula. In case something should happen to all three at once, copies of the formula are cached in two bank vaults, one in Trinidad, the other...