Word: sapping
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...airs of spring cooled and freshened by melting snows of New Hampshire, troubled with the sound of nesting birds and sweetened with fragrance from bursting buds and flowing maple sap come to disturb the student at his desk, to stir him to forget book, to promulgate questionnaires if he is learned, to do other things if he is not, it is time for a movie like the Mystery of Mr. X. It combines the detective thriller which diverts the gray board scholar, with the bill-and-coo whimsy comedy so appropriate to our age, to this season. It is smoothly...
...leading male portrays a sap. Mr. Jack Oakie enacts this part with a naturalness that is commendable. The other roles shatter no illusions, with the exception of that charmingly and competently portrayed by Miss Ginger Rogers. It is true that Gregory Ratoff acts as though he were "casting artificial pearls before genuine swine," but then, as the producer in the plot, he is sitting pretty...
...announcement by Earl Ellicott Dudding, ex-convict of Huntington, W. Va., that his daughter Miss Chemical Dudding, conceived by injecting into Mrs. Dudding's veins a serum made from the leaves and sap of a cherry tree, would be born Nov. 15 (TIME, Oct. 30): an announcement by Ex-convict Dudding addressed to "my friends, interested and curious watchers, eyebrow lifters, I-told-you-so nonbelievers, and whatnot," stating that Miss Chemical Dudding would be stillborn. ''Now our prospective chemical baby sleeps in death. We are consoled by the thought that there is no fault...
Earl Ellicott Dudding explained that the "sporoblast" was a serum concocted from the leaves and sap of a cherry tree. He announced that he would start a chemical baby farm after Miss Chemical Dudding was born. Said he : "If I gave out the formula, half of the doctors in the country would start bootlegging chemical babies. They would use this as a money-making scheme, and I will not stand for that. I have developed this system after many years' research in an effort to pro duce a new race, free from sin and crime...
...whole plant dies. Mexicans commonly intercept the climax by cutting out the stalk bud as soon as it shows, hollowing out a basin in the central core. The plant pours its banked energy into the place where the flower-stalk ought to be, produces a basin of sweet sap from which Mexicans make their national drink, syrupy pulque. By distilling fermented pulque they make mescal, a potent liquor. By letting the flower stalk grow, drying and slicing the firm pith, they get natural razor strops, insulating material...