Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the National Government came into power it was understood that one of its chief duties would be to enact a general tariff. But last week four Cabinet Ministers, free traders all their lives, gagged and refused to swallow the tariff. They were wizened Viscount Snowden, Sir Herbert Samuel, Sir Donald MacLean and Sir Archibald Sinclair. From a solemn Cabinet at No. 10 Downing St., Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald emerged with an announcement: Cabinet members who were unable to agree with the majority were at liberty to speak and to vote against the bill in Parliament. The move saved...
Last year Professors Sturgis & Isaacs - the first trained at Johns Hopkins the other at the University of Cincinnati; both are 40 - dried some hog stomachs, removed the fats, fed the residue to anemics. Hog stomachs also created new blood cells. They were easier to swallow because they lacked liver's surfeiting taste, and a dessertspoonful in water or tomato juice once a day was sufficient for health...
...focus the view through the ground glass. In front of Bourke-White's sympathetic but anastigmatic eye files the Five-Year cake-walk-agricultural, industrial, probably unworkable. The spirit of the proletariat was irresistible; but industrial idealism, sauced with scarce goods and inefficient service, she found hard to swallow whole. Living on cold canned beans, on "hard" trains that gave her few transports, she loved the Great Experiment with a grain of salt...
...Orlando, Fla., one day last week Marjorie Cohen, 3, tried to swallow a bean. It lodged in her windpipe. She choked. Her father called his physician; he could do nothing. Slowly Marjorie was choking to death. The only hope of saving her life was an operation with the bronchoscope developed by Dr. Chevalier Jackson of Philadelphia. Father Cohen carried his daughter aboard a fast train for Philadelphia...
Mild Mr. Henderson, who has no stomach for some of the "Bolshevism" which extremists in his Party have made him swallow, campaigned bleatingly last week, dazzled Burnley audiences with an account of how the League chose him (when British Foreign Secretary) as Chairman of the World Disarmament Conference that will meet next February (TIME, June...