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...most common medical procedures today is the skin test by means of which doctors tell whether a person is sensitive to ragweed, strawberries, horsehair, chicken feathers, scarlet fever, diphtheria or any other known allergen. The physician scrapes off a tiny area of the patient's skin, applies a drop or two of the allergic substance, covers the whole with a piece of adhesive plaster. Skin tests have preserved the health and lives of multitudes. They have also" served to reveal that about 1% of the population develops an eczema-like skin irritation solely from the adhesive tape used...
...second week ferocious rioting over L'Affaire Stavisky appalled Paris. With their horsehair plumes nodding and polished helmets glittering, mounted patrols of the Garde Republicaine moved slowly up & down the boulevards. Citizens screamed "Down with the Stavisky Cabinet!"-though in fact M. Camille Chautemps was Premier and no one charged him personally with having anything to do with the $30,000,000 pawnshop bond swindle of "Handsome Alex" Stavisky who died with a bullet through his brain at Chamonix when his rascality and bribery of Deputies and officials were unmasked (TIME...
...stucco bungalow; she gets dressed in a room on wheels. She is not married but plots to get other people married. When Lindbergh visited Los Angeles, she was the only cinema star who entertained him. At parties she gives imitations of Lillian Gish (in suspense), Jetta Goudal (with horsehair), the Prince of Wales (fatigued), Mae Murray (lip) and herself. Two years ago, becoming 30, she turned comedian...
...Fluffy, fibrous waste from wool-carding used as a substitute for feathers and horsehair...
...your bill. First, you are going to let bones come in free, and Brazilian pebbles. Then, bristles, if they are crude, cuttlefish bone, dry insects, stems of vegetables and flowers?I don't understand how they escaped. Birds' eggs and fish eggs, free. Fish skins, fossils, dragon's blood. Horsehair, hoops, old junk. If it's new junk it can't come in free. I don't know whether you let loaded dice in free, but you are giving the American people loaded dice in this bill. And seaweed?that just drifts in. Nux vomica, rags, shavings, old paper, rope...