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...dinner." Physically "they are not only short: they are thin, too, with narrow shoulders and wide hips: in other words-bell-bottomed." Nor can they hold their liquor: "All Latins have trouble with their livers and if they drink too much they get very sick." On puerile obscenity they thrive: "The simplest reference to the bathroom and the elimination processes of the digestive tract will plunge them into uncontrollable hysterics. ' In bed Latin males, according to Esquire's female researcher, are poor company: "They spend far more time in words than in action." They are "all worn...
...quoth Fred. "Go way back and sit down," I remarked testily. "Come and see," said Fred. He took a basketful of ashes and cinders and gave them to the porkers who ate them ravenously. That galoot Fred had been wintering his hogs with my ashes, and they appeared to thrive on them. WILLIAM E. JOHNSON McDonough...
That diet supplies all the proteins, fats and carbohydrates which the Eskimos need to thrive on. Whenever they adopt white men's flour, they develop alkalosis. Seal meat is the Arctic purgative...
...same diseases. On them new serums, drugs and poisons are tried out. More experimental work has been done with the white, pink-eyed rat (Mus Norvegicus albinus) than with the meek guinea pig - more, in fact, than with all other mammals combined. If men are ever able to thrive on synthetic food pills, those pills must first suffice...
Department store work is only for those college men who possess an abundance of nervous and physical energy, who work well under high pressure, who thrive on detail work, who are good bargainers, and finally who are relatively insensible to rebuffs...