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...might suggest that the unusual behavior of the blue tits in England [TIME, Jan. 23] was occasioned by their eating fermented berries. It is not an unusual occurrence for birds to become somewhat inebriated as a result of partaking of fermented sap or berries. The yellow-bellied sapsucker of our country is known for its queer behavior in this respect...
...father was a traveling salesman; his mother died when he was only four. Brought up by stepparents on a Maine farm near Newport, he gathered maple sap, milked cows. Milking was valuable training for a handshaking politician, Douglas says: "The hand movement is about the same...
Grown best in the shade at 2,000 feet, ixbut (Euphorbia lancifolia) is a plant which exudes milky sap. It has dark green leaves marked with a white "V." The strength and dosage of ixbut are remarkably uniform: take five leaves or five sections of stem (about five grams) to brew a cup of tea; drink six cups...
Modern Convenience. In Warren, Ohio, Mrs. Laura Brandt, thinking she was using water from the rain barrel, bathed the children, washed the dishes, took a bath and then discovered when she brushed her teeth that she had used her husband's crop of maple sap...
...Republican George W. Malone -said publicly that he would vote against it. Most of the nation's editorialists gave their sober approval-with the notable exception of the nation's largest newspaper, the America Firsting New York Daily News. Snapped the Daily News: "Uncle Sam or Sap is now . . . making official his scrapping of President George Washington's solemn warning to this country to keep out of foreign entanglements." The Omaha World Herald slyly demolished that classic argument by predicting: "Washington's words about foreign alliances . . . will be as dead as his warning against the formation...