Word: pablum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...booklet is a collection of simplified essays on a variety of subjects, some as topical as How to Mix Pablum, some as timeless as What to Do When Frozen ("Get to the doctor . . . as soon as you can"). Printed in English and in Eskimo syllables (a system of sound-writing which looks something like shorthand), it has helpful hints on how to collect family allowances from the Government, and it tells how to avoid hunger ("aim carefully when you shoot"). But most of The Book of Wisdom is concerned with helping the Eskimo to keep healthy and clean. Excerpts...
...perform any of the daily tasks which were so habitual in the past; when the mere sounding of a certain name makes your temperature behave like a see-saw; when you stop to chat with fond mothers, cuddle new-born babes and become interested in Weatena, Farina and Pablum; when you desert the Lone Ranger for Baby Snooks and Uncle Don; when you take to eating angel food cake, passion fruit sundaes and lover's delights; when you change your monthly magazine subscription from Esquire to Parent's Magazine; when you open a Christmas Club Savings account; when...
...China, they are presented to the U.S. by Mme. Chiang Kai-shek in gratitude for the activities of United China Relief. In a new, barless $15,000 home at New York City's Bronx Zoo, the new pandas will be weaned from bamboo shoots to a diet of Pablum, orange juice, milk, honey, raw eggs...
...last February Pandora, now age 3, began to toy with her Pablum mash. Gradually she sickened, by last week was having convulsions. One day police sirens screamed from The Bronx to Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center ahead of a zoo station wagon. Pandora, quieted by nembutal, was lifted in a stretcher, borne into the famed Neurological Institute, whisked to the tenth-floor X-ray room...