Word: gingering
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...feet as clumsy as a seal's flippers are the penalty which several thousand Dutch, Jugoslavian and German girls are paying for not wanting or daring to have babies. Theirs is precisely the punishment that was inflicted upon several thousand U. S. citizens who, craving drink, drank Jamaica ginger extract (TIME, March 24, 1930 et seq.). The European girls took apiol, an oily fluid obtained from parsley flowers, as an abortifacient. Both the European apiol and the U. S. ginger extract had been adulterated by viciously shrewd manufacturers with a tricresyl phosphate, newly discovered organic chemical which destroys nerves...
...annoying it can be to win a national election, Greek Royalists found out last week. The first acts of the new Royalist Premier. Panayoti Tsaldaris, lover of preserved ginger, were to default the $444,920 debt payment which Greece owed the U. S. and to set up in Athens a system of rationing bread by food cards similar to that in Russia...
...efficient cause of this disquisition. Anne may, near the end of January come near admitting that Harvard men are not so attractive, amiable, and delightful as she was wont to feel. There is something about countless evenings over scrambled eggs and sausages in the Somerset or milk and ginger bread in the kitchen that tends to sap even the most vital girl's interest in vague, suave, sophisticated, even brilliant young men-of whom the Vagabond once was one. But he can't tell her this-she must find this out for herself. And when it is all over, when...
...arrive just before one o'clock, at which time, the cafeteria closes. Nine out of ten men order sandwiches, the toasted tomato category being the most popular, with toasted cheese or toasted bacon among the other favorites. There is also a great demand for waffles; eggs are seldom ordered. Ginger ale runs a poor second to milk as a favorite drink, while coffee and tea, contrary to popular opinion are in little demand...
...absurdly jealous of her husband (Clive Brook); the Strawn household where middleaged. Kewpie-doll Mazie (Mary Boland) badgers her husband (Charles Ruggles) and her bibulous father-in-law (Charley Grapewin ); the Morrow household where a shrew runs the Temperance Union and cows her menfolk; and the Blake girls Ginger (Frances Dee), who loves young. Morrow, and Martha. When Mrs. Curry kills herself to make her husband sorry, the circumstances implicate the husband as murderer. When the witnesses come up, each discovers that he has something embarrassing to conceal. Several little harmless perjuries make an airtight case for the prosecution...