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Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell recalled accurately that the Administration had submitted last January a reasonable, workable program for preventing union abuses, that the Democratic Senate had watered it down, and Republican prodding (mostly by California's Bill Knowland) had put some starch back into it. In the House, said Mitchell, Speaker Sam Rayburn let the bill age on his desk "40 days and 40 nights" before referring it to the anarchic House Labor Committee, chaired by North Carolina's molasses-moving Graham Barden...
...year-old son, Jimmy, in a white-trimmed green ranch house. One day in February his wife called him at the office. "All the bottles in the house,'' she announced excitedly, "are blowing their tops!" Six screw-top bottles (containing nail polish remover, peroxide, rubbing alcohol, liquid starch, bleach and holy water) located in four different rooms, had opened and spilled...
...various kinds of sugar, fructose (from most fruit), glucose (from grapes and starch foods), sucrose (table sugar from cane or beets), lactose (from milk) and maltose (from beer) are all precipitators of decay. So is a high-starchdiet, even when relatively low in sugar. It does no good to substitute raw for refinedsugar; but blackstrap molasses causes a marked reduction in cavities...
...Starch & Gold. Thus began the carefully timed, almost agonizing round of greetings, luncheons, dinners, toasts, receptions, balls, meetings and tours for the royal couple. With scarcely enough time between official functions to change from one stylish dress to another (she never wore the same attire twice), Queen Elizabeth usually managed not to appear exhausted, foot-tired and hand-sore. And Washington, D.C., thrumming with true excitement, turned out with starched dickeys and flowing gowns to do her justice...
Unlike those of his displaced cousins (practically all of them were related to Queen Victoria in one way or another) who had to drive taxis or serve as waiters to keep alive, Philip's life was clothed in comfortable, if slightly shabby, respectability, kept crisp with starch by a stern British nanny named Miss Roose. Nanny Roose taught him English as his first language, saw to it that her bumptious charge stayed clean and neat, that he responded with gracious dignity when addressed as "Your Royal Highness," and that his royal bottom never wanted for a good sound spanking...