Word: jewells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduate, applied himself to finding out what there is in folk medicine which helps Chinese cure toothache, sinusitis and mouth sores with applications of dried toad venom and which made Shakespeare note: "Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head (As You Like It). From glands located behind the eyes of 7,500 U. S., German, Jamaican, Uruguayan, South African, Chinese and Japanese toads. Dr. Chen extracted potent drugs (adrenalin, cholesterol, ergosterol, and two digitalis-like substances) which modern scientific medicine considers indispensable. Apparently toads...
...dull catalogue of duller New Haven, and Mr. Charles Seymour writes with pale whimsy on artistry in dining. But it remains for the three reviwers to smother Mac-Leish and Pirandello with truffles of a more spiritual kind. Mr. Winter's long hosauna on Pirandelle in particular, is a jewel, a jewel of the genre ennoyuer bristling with irritating and inaccurate generalities. Mr. Winer may have made a long study of Romance Literature, as the editor insists, but it has yielded him little, and one fears that English composition escaped his schedule, however gruelling to Mr. Winer personally that schedule...
Somebody entered the London hotel bedroom of Constance Thomas Emery after she had left for the evening with her husband Thomas Emery, Cincinnati chemicals heir. The stranger opened a locked drawer, took a jewel-case containing a $37,700 rope of 85 matched pearls, diamond brooches in the shapes of a terrier, a rose and a duck...
...Robert J. Casey - Bobbs-Merrill ($2). Class war among Chicago's jewel thieves to whom murder is incidental...
...those days New York City's Society was the private hobby of Mrs. William Astor. The Vanderbilts were unassuming folk whose father, the old Commodore, had helped push the nation's frontier into the Pacific Ocean. The Vanderbilts were rich in money but Mrs. Astor's jewel was her master of ceremonies, Ward McAllister, who limited the number of Manhattan's citizens who "wouldn't make it uncomfortable in a ballroom for others...