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Federal control, beginning with the Food and Drug Act of 1906, gradually cut down the nostrum peddlers' bombast. Labeling requirements forced Lydia Pinkham's heirs to note that her vegetable compound for "falling of the womb and other female weaknesses" contained "18% of alcohol," but they piously insisted that it was there "solely as a solvent and preservative." Parker's "True Tonic" for "in ebriates" gave its victims a hair of the dog with 41.6% alcohol (83 proof...
...confessed bleatnik [Aug. 11], I was quite amused at Professor Klassen's terming the transistor radio an "appeal to bodily comfort which is related to the desire to go back to the womb, the mother and the breast." Surely he jests...
...Womb of Time." Judge Learned Hand often seemed almost to scoff at the law he served. "The aim of the law.'' he once said, "is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man." He was a legal secularist, denying the existence of a natural law and cautioning younger judges not to "embrace the exhilarating opportunity of anticipating a doctrine which may be in the womb of time, but whose birth is distant." He was also a charitable judge who could write, in reversing a lower court's refusal to grant citizenship to a woman because...
...judge whether Bumbry's acting was a match for her singing. As for the new production itself, it was typically spare in detail but marred by the intrusion of a few Radio City Music Hall touches: an angelic choir whose halos gradually became brighter on rheostats; a womb-shaped, rigid fish net with ballerinas spread-eagled to its sides...
...Henry J. Kaiser's Foundation Medical Care Program, with eleven hospitals, 800 doctors and 800,000 subscribers in the Pacific Coast states and Hawaii, offers womb-to-tomb care, hospital and medical (including psychiatry), for $15.55 a month for family...