Word: rices
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Synthetic Milk. China's Ernest Tso ground up fresh water-soaked soy beans and mixed the pulp with cane sugar, corn or rice starch, cod liver oil, calcium lactate, sodium chloride, cabbage water. This synthetic milk nourished Chinese infants as well as normal diet would have done...
...ordinary expenses, fruit, ginger, citron and so forth, I spend about 25c a day. Too much! But I am going to quit. . . . The food is not so good, so we chip in a shilling a day for-Oh! raisins in the boiled rice...
...starched water to preserve her beauty. Once she danced with the Prince of Wales and won a diving contest staged for him. Once she won a medal by holding a smile longer than other competing actresses. She drives a Chrysler car, dresses in a room mounted on wheels, likes rice pudding, consults fortune tellers. Most of her pictures have been vapid dramas of high life, assigned to her because of her social background: Pleasure Mad, Broken Barriers, His Secretary, The Latest from Paris, Slave of Fashion...
...months of drought we brought the rain, and how! . . . Yesterday, just as we went to parade past the Review Stand a storm hit us. Wet? We got soaked. The Duke of Connaught reviewed us. Boloney! Day before yesterday I was in the India Corps for lunch. Boiled brown rice from India. Boiled in olive oil Indian style. Good...
INFIDELS AND HERETICS, An Agnostic's Anthology-Clarence Darrow & Wallace Rice-Stratford ($3). "Agnostic" in the title is used broadly enough so that all tones from the lightest treble of skepticism to the deepest bass of atheism are to be found in this collection of short thoughts. Some of the contributors, willing or unwilling, are Poets Whitman, Byron, Job, Swinburne, Prosaists Santayana, Nietzsche, Plato, the Huxleys, Clarence S. Darrow. The collection cannot be called exhaustive since so many other "anti-religionaries" are absent-notably Voltaire...