Word: liquids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Countess Hella Brandenstein, daughter of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Germany's most distinguished pioneer in aeronautics, tipped a gilded bottle, allowed a stream of liquid air to cascade over the bow of Germany's new giant dirigible; 763 feet long, 102 feet wide, the 117th dirigible built at Friedrichshafen, and the first to be honored with a christening party. Two strips of canvas fell from the hull, revealed the name "Graf Zeppelin." Countess Hella shrilled: "Mit Glueck, Graf Zeppelin...
Slayer's Boast. Prince Felix Youssoupov has written autobiographically that he offered Rasputin poisoned wine, after first pretending to take a sip himself. When the Debauchee's potent digestion resisted liquid poison, Rasputin was induced to eat several pastries containing cyanide of potassium. Expectantly the nobles waited for their victim to collapse, and blanched with fear as the Black Monk, who was believed to possess occult powers, became merely hilarious after absorbing enough poison to kill a healthy elephant...
...gelatin. The gelatinized fed infants gained more, vomited less, regurgitated rarely. Gelatin makes cows' milk more digestible by breaking up the tough, difficultly digested casein allowing the digestive juices to get at the smaller particles; at the same time its spreading sticky quality keeps food down which in liquid form would be immediately rejected by a sensitive irritable stomach. Some idiosyncratic infants, however, may not take kindly to gelatin...
...pearls"-souvenir d'amour. But a year later she tells her devoted Anglo-Saxon that what she had felt for di Bari had not been the real thing: she had only thought she was in love. But now. . . . So she gives the American her "glowing beauty . . . the liquid eyes, the satin red cheeks, the cap of loose curls," and a portly income...
...Amalgam-an alloy of mercury with another metal or metals. Mercury is the only metal which is liquid at ordinary temperatures and its alloys are pliable substances ranging from liquid to solid according to the amount of mercury used. They are mechanically convenient for use in dentistry...