Word: whey
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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...
...trying to make fun of the Advocate. Franklin S. Owen's "Sunset's Cradle Song," with an idea, and a little art, is a lone curd in an ocean of whey...
...thus carelessly to subject them to such cold draughts as an east wind brings through so large an opening. It would seem as if some temporary covering might be furnished the inside o the window while the work was being carried on. If no shelter could have been rigged, whey did they not wait till the summer vacation, or at least till warm weather? I do not know how long the work will last, but it seems to me a serious inconvenience and danger that could just as well have been avoided...
...that hour. In fact I have heard a great many of them grumble at being obliged to leave so early, and I believe they are practically unanimous in desiring that the room should be kept open until 10 o'clock at least. And there seems to be no reason whey their wishes should not be gratified. The laying of gas pipes or electric wires, etc., is not involved, as in the case of the college library. The lights are already there, and the only expense would be the trifling cost of the additional gas that would be burned...