Word: haggardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toronto the earnings of two swimming pools on his property enable Dr. William James McCormick to devote himself to hobnobbing with learned doctors, doing an occasional piece of medical research. Last year he read about the research Drs. Howard Wilcox Haggard and Leon A. Greenberg had done on tobacco smoking (TIME. July 2, 1934). Those two Yale scientists found, as have other physiologists, that nicotine makes the adrenal glands excrete adrenalin which makes the liver and muscles pour their stored-up sugar into the blood stream where it becomes available for work, pleasure or refreshment. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco...
...Haggard & Greenberg had not reasoned so far. And Dr. McCormick decided that Camel advertising, which no longer uses the "Lift" slogan, was presumptuous. A non-smoker himself, Dr. McCormick bought nine Flemish Giant hares, had two senior medical students from the University of Toronto poison them with nicotine. The nicotine dissolved out of a single cigaret soaked in water is enough to make a grown man deathly sick. The solution of three cigarets will throw an adult into such convulsions that he will probably die within 15 minutes. Eight of Dr. McCormick's hares died of nicotine poisoning...
Admirers of the late Sir Henry Rider Haggard will observe that She is a rough adaptation of his novel, written in 1887. Equally apparent is the fact that the narrative is less immune than its heroine to the ravages of time. A sequel to King Kong and other such RKO extravaganzas, marred by idiotic dialog and the wooden acting of Randolph Scott, it can be recommended only to cinemaddicts who find bizarre landscapes and immense improbable interiors adequate substitutes for genuinely imaginative fantasy. Typical shot: She's No. i henchman (Gustav von Seyffertitz) ducking his head and mumbling prayers...
Four hours after eating a big slice of "an ordinary culinary onion of domestic growth, of medium size and fairly pungent.'' every quart of Dr. Haggard's breath contained one-billionth of an ounce of onion oil (allyl propyl disulfide). "The odor was still detectable by the sense of smell...
...Haggard and Greenberg washed their mouths with soap & water but could not get rid of the smell. They rinsed their mouths with 30% solution of alcohol in water, with no better results. Then "by washing the teeth and tongue and rinsing the mouth with a solution of chloramine" they "immediately and completely rid" themselves of the odors. Last week they advised: "It is probable that many cases of foul breath from other causes would be amenable to the same treatment...