Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubt whether you two gentlemen can ever appreciate how much you contributed to the morale of the military forces of the United States! Be happy in the thought that we regard you as the salt of the earth...
Blushers, Cheer Up. No one knows exactly what causes high blood pressure; it is not, as many suppose, merely old age or overindulgence in red meat, salt, drinking or smoking. About 40% of hypertensives seem to inherit a tendency to it; even babies sometimes have it. Dr. Page blames excitable nervous systems for a great many cases (evidenced by the fact that anger or fear makes blood pressure jump), and he suspects that another source of the disease is a chemical called angiotonin, released by the kidneys when their blood supply goes wrong...
...Avoid arguments, worry, salt water, Turkish baths...
...Pagnanelli" made secret photographs of a passionate lett r written to a friend by Salt Lake City's J. H. McKnight, a Mormon who always wore long flannel underwear in hot weather and had trouble with his spelling: "Oh, how I would love to strike hands with such nobelmen as Father Coughlin, Jearald Winrod, William Dudley Pelley .. . not to say Wheeler, Lindbergh the incomparable, Senator Nye and Walsh, and others too numerous to mention here. Oh, what I would give to be numbered with them, what an honor, what a rare prevelidge...
Married. Brigadier General Robert Wood Johnson, 50, president of Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings), head of WPB's Smaller War Plants Corp.; and Evelyn Vernon Bruff, brunette nightclub dancer; two weeks after his second divorce, day after her first; in Salt Lake City...