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Right down these steps and turn to the left. Yes, that's the Same Jerry's you've heard so Much about. B. & M.? Oh, that's Boston and Maine. What does it Mean? Oh, it's a sort of Sandwich with a little Jelly and Peanut Butter and Cheese and Honey and a Fried Egg on it. Do with it? Why they Eat it of course. No, they're Not crazy; they're just Harvard men, who like to be Different as Well as Indifferent...
Kosher Kitty Kelly. Because Kitty Kelly kept company with Mr. Rosen while her friend Rosie Feinbaum went with Pat O'Reilly, a policeman disguised as a milkman, Jew-Irish vaudeville nifties known to everyone who has ever eaten a peanut were served up between the singing of such numbers as Cuddle Up to Me and the delivery of brief but maudlin orations in behalf of race tolerance for the entertainment of an audience that could not but be conscious that, at another theatre only two doors away, leered, as it has for many a long year, a great yellow...
...very advantage of proximity becomes a disadvantage, as a number of colleges have already discovered. The nightly "movie" habit is easy to form and attended with many harmful consequences. Then there is the possibility that a local theatre would be turned into a collegiate madhouse, with unruly riot, peanut throwing, and cheap witticism. The banality often shown at a Class Smoker would be there in that case--only intensified to a high degree...
...Vitamin. Experiments with the diet of white rats disclosed that on a certain diet they will thrive but will not produce young or, if they have young, will not have sufficient milk to feed them, will become nervous, irritable, cross with the young and even eat them. Olive, peanut, soy bean and peach kernel-oil were found to restore and promote fertility but failed to produce lactation (that is, milk for the young). The seeds of wheat, corn, hemp produced fertility and lactation. From these facts are inferred the existence of a new vitamin, called Vitamin E or Vitamin...
...peanut production, during a recent year, amounted to 623,000,000 lb. valued at $30,000,000. Norfolk, Va., is generally considered the centre of the business, although Texas, with 205,000 acres in peanuts, leads all other states in output. Peanuts are grown extensively through the historic river plantations of Virginia; and one secret of Southern hams is said to consist in feeding hogs peanuts instead of corn and other food. In recent years, it has been observed that certain Mediterranean ports had suddenly become large importers of peanuts; on investigation it was discovered that oil was extracted from...