Word: teaspoon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always think of him," wrote Reader Katherine Caldwell, "as one of the great ... He had the lofty detachment of a genius and the warm friendliness of a child. When he stared me down with a frigid hauteur, as he sometimes did, I could have been swept up in a teaspoon. But when he moved in on me grandly and condescended to occupy my lap, I felt as though I'd made the Social Register." Death had taken Scoopy the Cat, the most celebrated literary feline since Don Marquis discovered mehitabel...
...brooches for $34 as well as a diamond pin at $6,650. In its store at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street are private buying rooms, where rich clients can inspect $200,000 necklaces at their leisure. But a housewife can walk in off the avenue and buy a $3 teaspoon or a 50? ashtray...
...chile pasilla, ½ Ib. of baked tomatoes, ½ Ib. of baked sesame seed, 2 oz. of shelled peanuts browned in fat, 2 slices of French bread browned in fat, 2 oz. of toasted pumpkin seeds, 3½ oz. of shelled toasted almonds, ½Ib. of chocolate,1 teaspoon of black pepper, 4 or 5 cloves, ½ oz. of raisins, one clove of roasted garlic, one roasted onion...
Salt Solution? Last week Detective Bascou thought he had found the solution. Nurse Demussy, he said, was no murderess. But someone had been incredibly, perhaps fatally, careless. As standard treatment after an operation, he discovered, patients are given a salt-drip injection-one teaspoon of salt in a liter of boiled water. But the Mâcon Hospital nurses had become woefully unprecise: they had taken to dumping a tablespoonful, or even a fistful, of salt into half a liter of water-and given the solution as a rectal drip. Could such a strong salt dose have killed 17 women...
...Hiccups are spasms of the diaphragm resulting from irritation of the phrenic nerves. Causes: swallowing something hot, or any one of a wide variety of diseases. In minor cases, holding the breath, breathing in a paper bag (to get carbon dioxide), sneezing, salt and lemon juice or a teaspoon of whiskey may be effective...