Word: rhubarb
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...modern practice of medicine plus the modern advertisement of proprietary drugs has almost wiped out the homel use of simple. Nonetheless, a demand persists for senna, henna, pennyroyal, hops, boneset, camomile, sage, tansy, flaxseed, rhubarb, ginger root, fennel seed, aniseed, saffron, viburnum...
...which everything was discovered and nothing known; an age in which all the outlines were tremendous and all the details sordid; when gas-jets struggled feebly through the circumambient fog, when the hour of dinner might be at any moment between two and six, when the doses of rhubarb were periodic and gigantic, when pet dogs threw themselves out of upper storey windows, when cooks reeled drunk in areas, when one sat for hours with one's feet in dirty straw dragged along the streets by horses, when an antimacassar was on every chair, and the baths were minute...
...another baboon breathed its last. That was the end of Merrimack's great May hunting day. The baboons, lately bought by Mr. Braden from the Benson Animal Farm, had escaped while being transferred from one cage to another, had rooted up some of Dr. Denicola's rhubarb. Merrimackers were afraid they might bite...
...dropped the nursery business. He performed millions of experiments in plant-breeding, producing - besides thousands of poor variations, fruitless hybrids, unfixed types and failures - about 150 "creations", of which the most celebrated are the Shasta daisy, thornless cactus (cattle-fodder), mammoth blackberry, mammoth asparagus, everbearing mammoth artichoke and rhubarb, and the Burbank plum. Perhaps his quaintest anomaly was a plant which grew potatoes below ground, tomatoes above. This and similar freaks he did not submit for commercial growth. They soon revert to type...
...over all the branches of education according to Rowell, who went on to say, "They educate us in psychology; ethics, especially those of the eternal triangle; science--I read in a tabloid paper the other day that a man is going to live 5,000 years on peanuts and rhubarb; philosophy--see all the new expressions they have given us; and politics. Education as taught by Socrares was a blessing. As it is taught by Mr. Hearst it is a curse...