Word: laine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Potatoes normally contain about .06% of a poison principle called solanin. In potatoes which have lain partly above ground during growth or have sprouted during storage the solanin content may increase to a point where the potatoes are unfit to eat. Symptoms of potato poisoning are similar to those of ordinary food poisoning: chills, fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhea, such as Washington's picnickers experienced last week...
...little white house near the Forest of Fontainebleau an aged, paralytic blind-man has lain for months listening to the poems of Walt Whitman. Sometimes his wife would read them to him, sometimes young Eric Fenby, a Yorkshireman like himself. But it was always Whitman the blindman asked for, preferably the later poems written when Whitman was paralyzed, dying. In Queen's Hall, London, last week, a great crowd marveled at the Songs of Farewell which blind Frederick Delius had written for double choir and orchestra. The words were Whitman's: How sweet the silent backward tracings...
...fondly called him, all Conservative members of the House rose from their seats when his boy Neville finished speaking. They faced the distinguished visitors' gallery, where sat a little old U. S.-born lady now known as Mrs. William Hartley Carnegie. She is "Old Joe's" widow, Neville Chamber lain's stepmother and the wife of the Chaplain of the House. In the Chancellor's speech there were a few words of vital importance to the U. S.: "Countries having discriminating tariffs against this country will have to be considered. The Board of Trade, with the concurrence of the Treasury...
...years ago by Cardinal Fesch, uncle of Napoleon, and subsequently had disappeared from sight. It was discovered by Mr. Harris and a British associate, Dr. Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey, among a pile of old rubbish in a small room in the Military School at Lyons, where it had lain unnoticed for half a century...
...battle scenes who lived in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The picture in question originally belonged to the Conde family, later passed into the hands of Cardinal Fesch, and finally was given to the Lyons Museum who in turn loaned it to the hospital where it has lain forgotten for several decades...