Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know my own. But more than that. I want the parts I play to represent not one woman, but all women, The Woman. I am trying to separate truth from reality. There are millions of leaves, each in itself a work of art. This is reality. But a leaf painted by Michelangelo is much more than just one leaf. It is The Leaf. It is all leaves. This is truth...
Actually, besides germs in water and food, doctors indict other villains, including the oil used in cooking, hot seasonings, even climate, altitude and just plain overeating. Mexicans, among whom dysentery is endemic, use such home-grown remedies as guava juice and seeds, guava-leaf tea, cactus pear seeds. Medically more accepted remedies: bismuth and paregoric, or in well-diagnosed cases under a doctor's care, the newer antibiotics. Currently popular is a new nonprescription tablet made by Ciba Pharmaceuticals called Entero-Vioform (an antiseptic containing iodine). A lot of these treatments, Mexicans hope, may become unnecessary as a result...
Explained the story beneath: "Dropped axle, 4-inch-long shackles, reversed spring eyes and a leaf removed from the spring group account for snooping attitude of front end. Spic-and-span engine room houses a semi-torrid flathead with lightened flywheel, two-pot manifold, headers and special distributor . . . The lakes pipes are up front."* Thus the editors of Hot Rod magazine instructed do-it-yourself fans in the delicate art of transforming a 1940 Ford coupe into an authentic, snoop-fronted, 130-m.p.h. "iron...
...Oliver Lawson Dick, "electing myself" to be the "young Man," went to work sorting out the huggermugger of 66 sprawling volumes of Aubrey manuscripts. The result, now published for the first time in the U.S., is a fascinating, alphabetically ordered collection of 134 portraits. As not a single Figge-leaf hides Elizabethan ribaldry, the book is scarcely suitable for young Virgins. Samples...
...says he enjoys browsers who like the sort of things that he carries and wishes more people would wander upstairs and just leaf through prints and talk. He finds the students very interested in art, but he wishes that they wouldn't let the awe of art galleries keep them from coming in and perhaps buying something small that they might like rather than cheap prints. "There's nothing like an original...