Word: mustard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet and do not tempt others," 2) "plenty of fresh air ... is a prime necessity," 3) "at a party where [kissing games] are played, be sure to gargle frequently," 4) "if you feel 'all in' after kissing or being kissed take a hot mustard foot bath...
...front, he decorated his dugout with flowered wallpaper, draperies and tufted pillows. He designed himself a new pair of pants because the government-issue pants were badly cut ("I enjoyed going into action well-dressed"). After four years of war−during which he was burned severely by mustard gas−he came out a captain, with a swatch of ribbons on his chest but no money in his pockets. His older brother Georges, a doctor in Manhattan, urged Raymond to join him. At 26, still wearing his captain's uniform (the only clothing he had), Loewy sailed...
...your hands & knees and then be unable to get out of the deep seats once you get into them? Subways are dirty, noisy, unattractive. The American soda fountain is disgraceful ; anyone who has ever smelled the midsummer-night stink of a sloppy soda fountain−decayed hamburger, sour milk, mustard and vanilla−can never forget it. The same goes for a telephone booth. Must one be crowded into a cramped, unventilated closet, use a mouthpiece which has been breathed into by thousands of people? Why not a two-way loudspeaker instead? Lincoln Steffens advised his son, who was worrying...
...surrealists appeared to be on the decline. Max Ernst's bilious yellow Feast of the Gods looked somewhat as if Ernst thought the gods dined on toadstools and mustard. The cleverest thing about Salvador Dali's photographically sharp picture of a cloth egg under a parasol was its title: Geopoliticus...
...York City appealed for 200 graduate nurses for emergency polio duty in city hospitals at premium pay. With 362 cases in July and 209 in the last week, the city had what Health Commissioner Harry S. Mustard called "a mild epidemic." But he warned that with plenty of hot weather still to come, a heavy polio case load could be expected until well into September...