Word: udders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Udder Nonsense...
...breeders have to say about it. In their picnic at River Falls, Wis., on June 4 as you will note on the attached sheet, they sang to the good old tune "I've been working on the railroad" the lines on the enclosure. May I suggest as a headline, "Udder Nonsense...
...source of the epidemic was traced to the principal milk dealer. Two of his men who handled the milk were found with sore throats from which Streptococcus hemolyticus was isolated. The guilty microbes were also found in the udder of a cow now excluded from the herd. All Lee milk is being rigidly pasteurized; all milk products made before or during the epidemic (butter, cheese, ice-cream) are prohibited...
...germ closely resembling and related to the streptococci of scarlet fever. It is generally distributed in milk, but is a disease of man, not of cows. The milk may become infected by human hands, or, what seems more logical in view of the widespread character of the epidemics,* the udder of the cow becomes infected from human hands, releasing a stream of contagion at every milking time. Most of the epidemics have occurred during the winter and spring months. Always they are explosive: a sudden appearance of sore throat throughout the community, accompanied by chilliness, headache, muscular soreness, nausea, vomiting...
...Significance. As Aeschylus wrote the tragedy of Agamemnon's homecoming, so Mr. Erskine has essayed the comedy of Menelaus' return. It is a comedy of manners-all conversation (and plenty of it), witty, charming, subtle. Much of it is new as milk still warm from the udder, and much of it is old as human nature. It is cast in the shape of a modern novel, and yet, as regards the number of characters for example, it almost conforms to the rules of the old Greek drama. It is a fastidious tidbit for lovers of refinement, polished facets...