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Last week, however, Director James M. Doran of the Treasury's Bureau of Industrial Alcohol announced the discovery of a new denaturant: alcotate. It will not kill or blind but will render industrial alcohol exceedingly nauseous to the taste. Director Doran said that alcotate's aroma is not unlike "spoiled eggs and garlic." One newshawk took a sip of it, made faces, said he thought it tasted like a compound of ether and benzine. Remarked Chemist Doran: "It's not as bad as some of the stuff you've been drinking...
...Last Mile is a horrible and sickening play-the most repulsive play now to be seen in Manhattan. There will be a great deal of discussion as to whether it is art or merely nauseous and falsifying realism. But if art includes the clarification of vital experience through order and insight, then this play, which sensitively depicts one of the most terrible predicaments into which life forces its unfortunates, must surely be construed as esthetic...
...familiar ring; the vibration, he thought which shivers through all great poetry. But no, its ring was too familiar; he had heard something very much like it before. And then he remembered-and both his poem and the beauty of the day were blown away in a particularly nauseous blast form the abattoir. The moral being that there are disadvantages as well as gains in vagabonding...
History and legend are filled with plagues, most horrific of which was the Black Death which scourged Europe in the middle of the Fifteenth Century. When Boccaccio's characters fled Florence in 1438 and spent their exile telling the stories of the Decameron, they thus escaped a swift, nauseous blight which, so the tales run, made dark convulsions of men's faces, twisted tortures of their bodies...
Chairman Raskob had some photostats made. He obtained affidavits from people in Mississippi, Kentucky, Kansas and Tennessee who described instances where Republican officials, State and national, had engaged in whipping up anti-Catholic animus. The most common offense seemed to be handing out The Fellowship Forum, nauseous, rabid Klanpaper (see p. 59). Two of the owners of this sheet, Mr. Raskob noted, were Republican State Chairman R. H. Angell of Virginia and William G. Conley, Republican nominee for Governor of West Virginia...