Word: livered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war, when fishermen were scarce, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service went on stocking lakes and streams with its usual 7,000,000,000 fish and fish eggs a year. State hatcheries fed them on horse meat and liver (rainbow trout got an extra pinch of paprika for coloring). After four years, a fine fish crop was ready & waiting. Only drawback: a shortage of fishing tackle...
...When you take aspirin, take some vitamin K (found in alfalfa, kale, hog liver, etc.) with it; aspirin depletes the body's K supply...
Died. Joseph Medill Patterson, 67, publisher of New York's whopping tabloid Daily News, cousin of Colonel "Bertie" McCormick (Chicago Tribune) and brother of "Cissie" Patterson (Washington Times-Herald); of a liver ailment; in Manhattan (see PRESS...
...special trainload of 400 staffers, alumni and chums had trooped out to Eagle Bay, Joe Patterson's 108-acre estate overlooking the Hudson at Ossining, N.Y. The party was not like the old days. The grave-eyed host lay in his sickbed upstairs, suffering from the liver disorder that took his life this week. He had never fully recovered from a pneumonia attack that laid him low last November...
Snake meat was good for rheumatism, otter's liver for tuberculosis. For sore eyes, a fine salve could be made from bears' gall bladders. If dubious of such tried-&-true remedies, the ailing one shuffled down the street to get a heavenly diagnosis from an astrologer, or spiritual advice from one of the local fortune tellers. There was not much point, said the Chinese, in a foreign doctor coming to Changsha to open a foreign-style hospital...