Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some mice develop cancers when suckled by mice of a cancerous strain...
...Streptothricin protects mice against 10,000 times the ordinary lethal dose of Salmonella schottmülleri (paratyphoid fever organism), Escherichia coli (colon bacillus) and Bacterium shigae (cause of Shiga dysentery). The drug's usefulness against typhoid bacteria has not yet been tested in mice, but it is effective against test-tube typhoid...
...Animals. In Antwerp, joyous burghers rounded up remaining Germans and collaborationists, stuck them in empty cages at the zoo-officers in the lion house, Belgian Fascists in the tiger pens, wailing women in the wildcat cages. The day before, a troop of flustered "Mice"-grey-clad German women auxiliaries-had piled their belongings on a truck, which then drove off. The truck was driven by members of Belgium's underground "White Brigade," would never reach the Reich...
Critics promptly suggested that the Government ask itself the same question. Snapped Toronto's Globe and Mail: "Are you [the Government] men or mice. . . . Have we the guts to admit that our policy was dictated by political cowardice? . . . It is not a pretty challenge. Yet, in the language of the Government, it is proper and just. It is a poor defense for cowardice to scream 'Coward...
...Noel Coward after seeing the Lamb of God's movie, In Which We Serve. "Courage is the only thing that makes me cry." After previewing Goodbye, Mr. Chips, he burst into "a great, astonishing sob" and fell down the projection-room stairs. "One of the characters in Of Mice and Men," he wrote to Harpo Marx, "is an amiable and gigantic idiot. . . . I tried to get [Heywood] Broun to take this part and he was very hurt." "Just a big dreamer," said Harpo of Woollcott, "with a good sense of double-entry bookkeeping...