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...Germans did. British Private Richard Welsh of Yorkshire gave the most telling account: "A lot of us suffered from dysentery and stomach trouble owing to the poor food. Ersatz coffee tasted like burnt wood. We were given mint tea which was generally used for shaving. . . . We were given 'tub fat' which was like axle grease, to put on our bread." Private Alexander Mitchell of Dunfermline said: "Our average daily menu was a half-pint of herb tea, a quart of soup (turnips and hot water), twelve ounces of black bread and once in a while a small piece...
...Survival. In Kimball, S.D., Clarence Bely was kicked out of a barn by a horse, presently tried to show friends how it happened, was promptly kicked by the horse again. In Clearfield, Utah, a farmer who tried to heat his bath water by building a fire under the tub was presently watching his house and barns burn to the ground. In Manhattan, the emergency ward of a local hospital treated the facial lacerations of a nearsighted youth who had caught one of his pet boa constrictors trying to escape. The boy had peered into the snake's eyes...
Author of the plan is pint-sized, vitriolic Clarence Budington Kelland, G.O.P. National Committeeman from Arizona, longtime fictioneer for the Saturday Evening Post (Sugarfoot, Arizona), onetime tub-thumping isolationist (Pearl Harbor changed his mind). A bitter-end Republican, he caused a rumpus in Manhattan's famed Dutch Treat Club by stating, in May 1940, that the Fifth Column in America was headed "by that fellow in the White House...
When one studies . . . LAWSONOMY . . . all problems theoretically concocted in connection with Physics will fade away. . . . "All salads should contain a sprinkling of fresh cut grass. ... To imbibe alcoholic beverages. -. aids and abets the disorgs. ... The head should be ducked into a tub of cold water at least twice a day. . . . When man gets out of the economic rut . he will devote much time to the study of universal laws, and to do this successfully he will have TO GET OFF The Earth...
...play-yard contains what PBH describes as the last metal swing in the city of Boston, as well as a hose shower and galvanized iron wash-tub. Thirty boys and girls play with the crates. Swings, and toys, while the PBH janitor gleefully squirts then with the hose. Supervising the activities are four trained assistants, while the PBH secretaries lean out of the windows to watch the frolic...