Word: inge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reference to a male sex criminal who was given stilbestrol to keep him under control definitely implies an effect from eat ing hormone-treated chickens which just is not so ... A person could take a whole pel let used in treating chickens . . . and it would have no effect on him. There is a chance that he might have a slight nausea for a short time. In order to have any effect on his sexual activity, a pellet would need to be consumed daily, or possibly even twice daily, for at least five or six days. We can't quite...
Some of the local color is pretty fine, e.g., the date plantations of the hinterland, street urchins sardonically shoeshin-ing the bare feet of a beggar, the Arabian sun driving a whole town close to frenzy. The story itself serves up the melodrama hot and mostly straight...
...Once, when he was not invited to a party on the Riviera, he stood behind a hedge and peppered the guests with garbage. Zelda kept right up with him. At a farewell party for Alexander Woollcott, she kicked off her black lace panties and presented them as a go-ing-away present. When budding Novelist Robert Penn Warren praised This Side of Paradise, Scott truculently replied: "You mention that book again and I'll slug...
...have great faith in the miracles of modern science, so I'm not disturbed by the fundamental arrangement. (I am told by a friend from Adams House that Irene was utterly horrified when this was revealed to her.) But as a result of many years of violent GI-ing with harsh abrasives and caustic merchandize, the upper layer of fine plastic has been eroded away, exposing the layer of textiles below. Now this leads to two hateful features: First of all, I object to having ravelings of socks in my food, however sterile they may be. But worse...
...each generation of them to DDT not quite strong enough to wipe them out. The survivors, says Dr. Pielou, grow progressively tougher. Eventually, he hopes, they will be able to ignore DDT. Then they will be released in orchards to mop up the fruit moths that have survived DDT-ing...