Word: mustards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors prescribed, he lay all morning on the examining table, sometimes napped; in the afternoons he tidied up the laboratory and ran errands. Human Gastric Function reports what happened when Drs. Wolf & Wolff plied and prodded Tom's stomach with whiskey, glass rods, hot & cold water, mustard, drugs, air pumps. The book is a minute record of his stomach's color, secretion and activity when Tom felt relaxed and secure, when he was full, hungry, worried or angry. Some of Wolf & Wolff's findings...
...suffer cramping "hunger" pains. Pinches and pricking and electric shocks sufficient to cause intense pain to a man's skin had no effect on Tom's gastric mucosa. But when a spot on his stomach lining was stripped of its protecting mucus and sprinkled with mustard, it became very sensitive. Strong pressure with a glass rod or from a balloon inflated in his stomach to 1,500 cc. gave Tom a stomachache...
...Embassy in Moscow Ambassador William Standley gave a rousing Fourth of July party. The guests, Americans and Russians, enjoyed: hot dogs with buns and mustard; punch with vodka; a Russian orchestra presenting a concert of American music, including Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and a Shostakovich arrangement of When Johnny Comes Marching Home...
...circulation of hot dogs would fall off were it not for mustard, but mustard is not their chief lure...
...Harold Ickes regretfully robs the reader of the book's real climax - an account of his years in the Administration. While still "a member of President Roosevelt's official family," he explains, "it isn't altogether my fault that I cannot season this particular dish with mustard and cayenne pepper and tabasco sauce as you may have expected me to do." Adds he: "Some day I will write a sequel - a bloody one!" Meantime, he heaves a whole hive of hornets at his recent opponents...