Word: vitaminous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gauntleted, high-booted young man hopped out with a package. As he walked back to the kitchen there rose a great barking & scratching. In the package was a luscious dog dinner - fresh beef of lamb, cleaned of fat & gristle, cubed for bolting, soaked in a broth of vegetable vitamin juices, garnished with shredded lettuce or cabbage wrapped in waxed paper and served up on a papier mache platter. Son of a socialite Washington insurance broker, Leroy Goff Jr. is 30, small, light-haired, blue-eyed, fresh-cheeked, amiable, handsome. At Princeton (Class of 1926) he had the peculiar distinction...
...country's foremost organic chemists because he was thoroughly conversant with other sciences and quick to apply their techniques to his own. His most famed achievement was discovery of the chemical structure of chlorophyl, green coloring matter which sustains plant life. He was working on synthetic manufacture of Vitamin A when Harvard's Corporation called him out of the laboratory for good...
Carotene is a yellow pigment found in carrots and some other plants. In the human liver it becomes Vitamin A, hence has been dubbed "primary Vitamin A." Scientists agree that Vitamin A is essential to growth. Because an experimental animal deprived of it is susceptible to infection, some wishful-thinking investigators have assumed that Vitamin A is also "anti-infective," have cried it up as a weapon against respiratory infections. Experiments have by no means substan tiated their claims. Researchers in Manhattan lately reported that children dosed with Vitamin A (in fish liver oils) and "primary Vitamin A" had proven...
...Medical Association last week was moved to wrath. At two phrases which lately began appearing on the wrappers of Smith Brothers' cough drops and cough syrup he cast a three-column edi torial bolt, gist of which lay in two words. Smith Brothers' phrases were: "Contains Primary VITAMIN A. THE 'ANTI-INFECTIVE' VITAMIN." Editor Fishbein's two words: "meretricious quackery...
...Seen." Almost as striking as the Spalding-Castoria conjunction will be the crooning of Helen Morgan for Bi-So-Dol, stomach sweetener, at 2 p. m. Sundays. Tenor John McCormack will sing lush Irish ballads for Vince mouthwash. Spindling Nat Shilkret & orchestra will provide a background for the Vitamin A in Smith Brothers couph-drops. Nino Martini will sing for Lirit bath softener. Actor Fred Stone, a comparative newcomer to radio, will have his wife and three daughters with him on a Gulf Refining Co. program...