Word: oatmeal
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While the patient in Fitzsimons Hospital ate his first solid food-a bowl of oatmeal-Dr. White consulted with his associates, visited the President, and studied the three cardiograms that had been made up to that time. He and three of the doctors attending President Eisenhower issued a statement which was read by Hagerty: "The President has had a moderate attack of coronary thrombosis without complications." Asked by the press for a clarification of the word "moderate," Dr. White replied, through Hagerty: The attack"was "neither mild nor was it serious...
Personality & Private Life. Despite his decades in the East, Quarles still has a slight Arkansas drawl. Greying, blue-eyed, slight, he never smokes, eats sparsely, almost never drinks. He likes to cook his own morning oatmeal, sometimes drinks plain hot water instead of coffee or tea. In Washington he and his second wife Rosina (his first marriage ended in divorce) live quietly in their own home near Chevy Chase; to avoid the capital rounds, they consulted a protocol expert for advice on invitations they could properly skip. He enjoys dancing, good music, golf and-"through force of habit," he says...
...that are alike. They learn other words by how they are used in a sentence (e.g., milk, from "The cat drinks milk") are encouraged to look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary. Prefixes and suffixes, vowels and diphthongs, combination words such as oatmeal and airplane are all taught in their place...
...successful changes made by the Farm Journal's Graham Patterson, 73, a good-humored, pink-cheeked publisher who ran the Christian Herald before he took over Farm Journal in 1935. Patterson watches his health as closely as he watches his magazine, keeps fit with frequent bowls of oatmeal, always sprinkled with a laxative which he carries with him wherever he goes. Once in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a friend approached tiny (5 ft. 3¾ in.) Publisher Patterson and prankishly asked whether the grits on his oatmeal were a growth stimulant. "No," answered Patterson...
...shoes on Easter Tuesday.) In Bohemia, the women pay the men for the Easter Monday beating they get. The payment: dyed eggs. The beatings and egg-giving occur in the morning. In the afternoon everybody-tired, bruised and happy-goes egg rolling. In Scotland, bannocks (wheel-shaped oatmeal cakes) were rolled down the hillsides, later gave way to hard-boiled eggs. Across the Irish Sea the custom was known as "trundling," and one Irish historian noted suspiciously that "it is a curious circumstance that this sport is produced only by the Presbyterians." No Presbyterian, President Rutherford B. Hayes, a para...