Word: livers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with the state of things last year, little reason for complaint concerning the board at Memorial, and one is reluctant to find fault at all, when such an improvement has been made. But when, inevitably, one morning in each week, the only meats provided are those ever welcome delicacies, liver and bacon and sausage, some who do not relish such dishes must either breakfast on bread and butter and sweet potatoes, or resort to the convenient, but for some expensive, order slip. If the writer did not know that others besides himself were incommoded by this rather unhappy combination...
...idea that tobacco allays nervousness is exploded; as although by constant use of it the system becomes so accustomed to it as not at the time to exhibit any effect, yet it tends to irritate the nervous system. If it were not for the action of the liver and kidneys in throwing off the tobacco poison, a user of the weed could not live. The action of these organs is shown by the yellowish tint and puffed condition of the skin of the habitual tobacco user. Although it has been much discussed whether or not tobacco is good...
...editorial in the Boston Advertiser says : "For instance, too much Spanish mackerel palls, gallons of toothsome terrapin congest spleens, and chicken liver en brochette in incessant doses have been known to discomfit the digestion of even a Harvard boy." The writer probably has dined at Memorial...