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...Infective enteritis is usually, epizooic at this time of the year," and like alcoholism "manifests itself by vomiting and great depression accompanied by an insatiable thirst. This disease is due to a virus, so your cat may contract it even though it never leaves your house or apartment...
...Americans of this second westward trek are still fighting the desert, the mountains, hunger, thirst, death. Tame Indians stand and wonder at them. The Indians these modern pioneers fight are California deputies who resent the invasion of their State as much as earlier red men resented earlier whites. These are in a better position to show resentment...
Lean, grey Dr. Ernest William Barnes, Anglican Bishop of Birmingham and one of England's great liberal Christians, recalled the words of St. Paul (in Romans 12:20): Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. In the Upper House of the Convocation, Dr. Barnes moved that the British Government be urged to relax the blockade so that foodstuffs could enter Germany. Sternly His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury replied: "Germany can provide food for its population. We must leave...
...grades of milk. ... In another [county] a sanitation officer persuaded the authorities of a little city to do something about their water supply by the good old device of putting dyestuff down a suspected privy and watching it color the water of the spring whence the citizens quenched their thirst...
...Manhattan apartment-hotel called One Fifth Avenue. Yet last week ghosts were astir in that swank Greenwich Village tower. They had moved in with the new tenant in 24-A, a spry, 60-year-old, brown-eyed grandmother from Taos, N. M., with long greying bangs, hornrimmed glasses, a thirst for new experiences. The new tenant's name is Mabel Dodge Luhan. After a quarter century she had come back to open a new salon...