Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wash day" followed the weekend. Busiest Reno citizens were the two judges of Washoe District Court, Thomas Francis ("Barney") Moran and Benjamin Frank-lin Curler. Judge Moran, a Scot in his 503, stoutish with thin grey hair, teaches a young men's Bible class at the Baptist church. His brother is a Roman Catholic priest. On the bench hearing divorce cases, he tilts his head back, eyes the witness under his glasses. Popular with Reno's transient colony, he likes to marry a woman to a new husband a few minutes after he has divorced her from...
Diluted 6 Boiled Brains, Brain cells contain protein of about the consistency of uncooked egg white. Alcohol, coffee, cocaine and anesthetics coagulate those brain proteins, as boiling hardens eggs. Bromides and thiocyanates thin out the proteins. In certain types of insanity (the manias) the brain apparently becomes permanently boiled. In other types (catatonia) the brain is diluted. Using drugs which give the opposite effect helps the various insane types, and sometimes cures. Lack of oxygen lets the brain get soft. Hence, said Wilder Dwight Bancroft (Cornell) who with his colleague G. Holmes Richter made these observations: "Aviators may become incapacitated...
...checked his words from a printed copy of the address. Explained Columbia: "When Mr. Hoover finished all that was on the copy the control man switched the circuit back to the announcer to sign off. But the President continued talking, speaking extemporaneously for about two minutes. He talked into thin air?not over the radio. . . . Clyde Hunt of WMAL, Washington committed the offense...
...blue sheets of bad news before their cheery hearth in Surrey (see cut). Last week, alert as a mother robin, she perched in the gallery, saw her Philip pop a private word in the Prime Minister's ear, pick up a glass of water,* tilt it against his thin lips, set it down, and begin to speak...
Following the sudden death of his father, thin, tall DuBose Heyward, descendant of the First Families of South Carolina, became the only man in his family at the age of nine. He sold papers for a time, and ill health later prevented him from obtaining formal schooling. In 1924 he dropped his moderately successful insurance business, took up writing...