Word: tarred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heflin: "If you do, they will tar and feather...
...that the reporters regretted the necessity of publishing the words which so plainly signified a lack of tact on the part of the Senator from Alabama, but in the last extremity they can plead that he gave them no cue that his condemnation of Senator Robinson of Arkansas to tar and feathers was made only in "fun." In a speech bristling with denunciations and innuendos it was not their duty to separate the wheat from the chaff. Indeed, if senatorial "fun" of Senator Heflin's brand can be checked by a fear of the "villains" of the press galleries...
...have one." I never knew of Mr. Norton's acting from any other motive. He not only read out loud at home every evening; he offered every family in the land choice material for similar reading; every Sunday he read to the inmates of the Hospital for Incurables, not Tar from Shady Hill.... To describe Charles Eliot Norton in a single phrase, I should say, as he said of Emerson, that of all the men I have known, he made the strongest impression of consistent loftiness of character
...this seemed wonderful and not a little of chemical prestidigitation. However, monsol, a coal tar derivative, is not different in source and relatively no different in effect from several other aniline dyes tied chemically to antiseptics. The German doctor Paul Ehrlich imagined their theory in the 1880's, applied chemical knowledge and after 20 years invented salvarsan, specific against lues.* This is a yellowish powder composed of arsenic and hydrocarbons. It is a selective poison for spirochetes. By creating it, Dr. Ehrlich founded a new science...
...acriviolet, hexyl-resorcinal (put together by Professor Treat Baldwin Johnson of Yale and 50 times more powerful than carbolic acid) and many another. Many of them can be injected directly into the blood stream. Practically each week brings reports of new ones in the scientific periodicals. Their bases are tar, distilled from coal and modified according to the need of medicine and the will of chemistry. Monsol is another of their family...