Word: livered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rubens, who was fond of the picture himself, once described it more modestly in a letter offering it for sale to a 17th Century collector: "A Prometheus bound on Mount Caucasus; with an Eagle which pecks his liver. Original, by my hand, and the Eagle done by Snyders.* Nine feet high by eight feet wide." Rubens' asking price was also modest: 500 florins (about...
...every drink that Chaim Soutine refused, Jules Pascin downed twelve. Ulcers did not bother him, though his overworked liver did. In 1930, when he was 45, it became clear that his liver would soon give out altogether. Pascin slashed his wrists, wrote "Lucy, pardonnez-moi" in blood on the wall, and, for good measure, hanged himself. The girl friend of the message, Lucy Krogh, subsequently opened an art gallery. Last week she staged a retrospective show of Pascin's paintings and drawings...
Along with her name, Her Royal Highness Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of Edinburgh, three-week-old second-born of Britain's Princess Elizabeth, acquired an identity card, a ration book, a bottle of orange juice and a bottle of cod-liver oil, duly presented by officials from the Westminster food office. Next day, Anne had her first outing, a tour around the garden at Clarence House in a black baby carriage, a hand-me-down from her brother, 22-month-old Prince Charles...
Perhaps, speculated Dr. Hundley, people with impaired digestion or on restricted diets do not get enough copper into their systems. For such cases he would like to see careful medical testing of a diet containing copper-rich items like liver and seafood. But no one, however grey, should try taking his copper straight. In any but the smallest amounts, copper is a cumulative poison...
...Javanese and Chinese laborers in the rice fields of Sumatra, living under identical conditions and eating almost the same food, both have a high rate of liver cancer, but the Chinese have a high incidence of stomach ulcers and stomach cancer while the Javanese have virtually none...