Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 out at 23," but their "lack of masculine energy" does not prevent them from boasting...
...Columbus, Ohio, solved this difficult problem by cutting a channel into the pelvis, lining it with a narrow U-shaped loop of the patient's own intestine. After some time the inner loop of the U was removed, leaving the outer wall to form a mucous membranal tract resembling the normal vagina...
Another subject could eat normally, but his respiratory tract had been disconnected from his throat because of laryngeal cancer. This patient's breath was inhaled and exhaled through a tube inserted in the windpipe. Three hours after he ate salad garnished with onion and garlic, the air exhaled through the tube became malodorous. In this instance the breath had no contact with the mouth, throat, esophagus or stomach, must therefore have picked up the contamination in the lungs. Unwilling to trust their own sense of smell entirely, Drs. Blankenhorn & Richards called in technicians, hospital internes and residents...
...talk things over. Their minds met. Charlie Taft went home, expanded his speech into a 111-page book, You And I-And Roosevelt.* To Governor Landon he sent a copy inscribed: "To the man who fits the blueprint set forth in this little book." Cried Alf Landon, placing the tract permanently on his desk: "There is one book I can recommend...
...scare into the U. S. Government. Present-day "Gentiles" know little of Mormon history, few Mormon heroes except Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. After reading Charles Coulson Rich they could add another name to their list of Latter-day Saints, many an historical fact to a little-known tract of U. S. history. Far from being a debunking biographer, Author Evans is onetime Professor of Church History in Latter-day Saints University (Salt Lake City); his chronicle of a Mormon hero is enthusiastic but this side idolatry...