Word: potions
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Thus in the second year of the War the Paris correspondent of London's pompous Times described to anxious wives and sweethearts of Britain's warriors the insidious green potion that had been tempting their dear ones in bistros from Montmartre to Montparnasse. This harrowing revelation that British children yet unborn would pay for their father's absinthe drinking could never have passed His Majesty's censor had not the Times been privileged to announce simultaneously that the French Government was banning and prohibiting le diable vert (the green devil). Last week, after 19 years, all Europe was startled...
...farmers became brave enough to eat one. In the U. S. before 1800 witches were practically the only people who ate tomatoes, which everybody thought were poisonous. Indians in Mexico were found munching them as early as the 16th Century. The French prescribed them as a highly effective love potion. Thomas Jefferson had some on his Virginia farm in 1781, dared to use them in sauces and soups. But a woman born in Trenton, N. J. as late as 1833 reported that when as a child she ate a tomato, her parents rushed her to the doctor, certain she would...
Died. Edwin Pond Parker II, 39, one-time husband of Manhattan Poetess Dorothy Rothschild Parker; of an overdose of sleeping potion to deaden toothache; in Hartford. Conn...
Tenor Tito Schipa, who sang leading roles with the Chicago Civic Opera Company until it disbanded last spring (TIME, July 4), appeared in L'Elisir d'Amore as the timid rustic who gets tipsy on a love potion taken to help him win the village belle. Schipa was not so slapstick in the role as Tenor Gigli, whom he is replacing. His voice is lighter. But he sings Italian arias with the old-fashioned sentiment which the galleries adore...
...story is based on a legend: A Balinese prince, returned from his European tour, sees a coolie girl he wants just before she marries a member of her own caste. After the marriage, the prince has his sister get a sorcerer's potion (goona-goona) and give it to the coolie girl in a dish of rice. He has the husband sent away and has his will with the drugged wife, leaving his royal hereditary kriss (jeweled, big-handled-sword) behind. The husband finds it, kills the prince, is himself killed...