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...including a "terribly brainy" penguin who "gets somewhat irritable over other peopie's muddles," and a fluffy, conceited little lamb, privately described by Annette as "possibly a bit of a bitch, but so young it doesn't matter." Other supporting players are Oswald the Ostrich, Willie the Worm, Sally the Seal, Peter the Pup, Poppy the Parrot, and two "rather common" field mice named Morris and Doris...
...drug looked like a good bet for alcoholics. Other anti-worm medicines (e.g., the common cleaning fluid carbon tetrachloride) are sometimes fatally poisonous when mixed with alcohol. During the past year, two of Dr. Jacobsen's associates have treated 500 alcoholics with the drug; they called it "antabus" (from anti-abuse). By last week 450 of the patients still had a loathing for alcohol after only one dose of antabus...
Saturday, the worm turned. Favored Brown toppled before a smoothly functioning J. V. machine, and the denizens of the Blood Pit could hold up their heads again. After two months, one-man-coaching-staff McCabe had brought his team into the win column without interrupting the system of cooperation with the varsity. As for Yale, "We'll do all right...
Vogue's Book is sure to worm its way into the shelves (or secret drawers) of many a home, because it caters to the social yearnings of all classes-from the sportsman who needs to know what kind of mourning is appropriate to driven-bird shooting (a black arm band on a tweed coat) to the unfortunate who still needs to be told that "oil is mispronounced 'erl.' " Some of it is what the whole book imagines itself to be: plain common sense and practical advice. But there is also a great deal of pedantic nonsense whose...
...deepest of these problems was at the bottom of the conflict at Amsterdam -the problem of the Nature and Destiny of Man. Every religion divides along two poles. For the one, man is a worm. For the other, man is "a little lower than the angels...