Word: whey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparisons. No attempt is so beset with inveiglements to flat failure. The way is full of pitfalls, and flanked with ambushes--of ill temper, overstatement, and undue ambition to substitute mere "smartness" for humor. It is like baking a custard: too much heat in the oven fillips it to whey in a twinkling, and untutored carelessness withers all its delicious possibilities to stringy, unpalatable ruin. But blessed are they among a generation anhungered who know the true recipe and have acquired the knack of handling the heat...
...gallant youths from the clerical force who swore to eat nothing beyond the curious diet he daily administered to them. He fed them on advertised foods that contained boracic acid, sulfates, benzoates, formaldehyde; he watched their cheeks grow lean, their temples hollow, their skins turn the color of whey. He watched the falling off of their flesh, the softening of their bones; and he tabulated the results. His principle postulated two theories-1) that food should not be in itself poisonous, 2) that it should be mixed with nothing that was not demonstrably helpful. "I do not object," said...