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...four hours and still keep fighting. The principal advantage of gas, however, is that it lowers the efficiency of the entire army more than 50 per cent because of the fact that masks interfere with eating, speaking, marching, and general fighting. I cannot agree that dichlorethyl sulphide, commonly called mustard gas or 'Yperite' is painless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANNON SUPPORTS USE OF POISON GAS IN WARFARE | 3/17/1932 | See Source »

Face the Music is a timely, satirical musicomedy which ordains itself to laugh and sing away the Depression. Scene I discloses a host of newly pauperized millionaires lunching gaily at the Automat, while a sightly chorus chants: See Mr. Whitney passing by, Putting mustard on a Swiss-on-Rye . . . There's Mrs. William Randolp Hearst, Saying, "That's my place I got there first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...bull was suggested to Tobaccoman Green by the bull's neck on the seal of Durham, England, trade-mark of Coleman's mustard. Three smokers of Bull Durham were James Russell Lowell, Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Lord Tennyson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In a Carolina Forest | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...month as a book, Cancer.* Editor of the book is Dr. Frank Earl Adair, 43, Ewing disciple, attending surgeon at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancel? and Allied Diseases. Dr. Adair is also coauthor of a chapter in the book, on treating skin cancer with mustard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Crusade | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...last forever. We have had them before and shall probably have them hereafter. Eventually people become bored with looseness and general cynicism. They may for a time grow tired of Victorian standards, they may find middle class morality uninteresting, but they grow tired even sooner of nastiness. A little mustard is an appetizer, but it takes very little more to become an emetic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORAL DEPRESSION IS SHOWN BY WET VOTE SAYS CARVER | 11/6/1930 | See Source »

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