Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble with streptomycin is that it may make patients dizzy. So far, the new neomycin has had only a slight harmful effect, or none at all, on laboratory animals. Like penicillin, neomycin may possibly work when taken by mouth. Streptomycin must be injected. But headline writers who shout that neomycin is already a better drug for tuberculosis than streptomycin get a pained look from Dr. Waksman. He does not know yet when tests on human patients can get started...
Lily Sammile is Lilith, the female demon of Jewish folklore, the first wife of Adam, who wanders the world caressing men with her gritty hand, kissing them with her dusty mouth, luring them to the forgotten cemetery shed, which is the Gatehouse of Hell...
Dick would convene the gentlemen of the press in his Dillon cubicle, settle back in his wooden armchair, fold his hands across his paunch, cross those match sticks be uses for legs, and give them the lowdown, drawling half from the aide of his mouth and half through his nose...
...there was equally fine singing from two other principals. Joel Berglund was magnificent as Jokanaan, the prophet, whom Salome has decapitated in her insane effort to kiss his "ruby-red mouth." And as for Kerslin Thorborg, I only wish she had more to do in her portrayal of Herodias, King Herod's wife. What she did sing was superb...
Tesreau's account of the struggle tallied with medical referee Dr. William C. Putnam's report that death was caused by a hemorrhage on the outside of Cirrotta's brain and that there were only two outward marks of injury: a small cut in the left corner of his mouth and a bruise on his left temple...