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...against Britain, observers were confident that no effective steps to enforce them could be taken by fledgling Prime Minister Nahass. True he is the successor of the late famed Zaghlul Pasha who forged and created the Wafd; but Nahass Pasha, wafded into power, is scarcely a match for lean-limbed, steely-eyed Baron Lloyd...
...Lean beef, fat beef, beef tongue, liver, brain, marrow: that is what two men ate and it is all they ate: for 21 days, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, famed Arctic explorer; for 57 days, his friend and erstwhile companion, Karsten Anderson, whose present business is orange growing. Last week, the trial done, Dr. Stefansson went straight to Fairfield, Conn., where after a dinner of beef tongue by choice, he testimonialed: "Before the experiment I felt lackadaisical on getting up in the morning but now I feel like jumping out of bed and getting right to work...
Much stress has been laid by the press on the fact that Stefansson and Anderson did not develop scurvy. There was no reason why they should develop scurvy, beri beri, or chilblains. All three vitamins, A, B and C, are present in small amounts in fresh lean meat; liver contains more of them. Other foodstuffs contain even more, it is true, but if the men were allowed all they wanted to eat, they would get enough of the essential vitamins in the beef products to satisfy. The real interest in such an experiment lies in the effect of a meat...
...last few years most of the nations from Lapland to Antartica have taken their fling at this country; vocabularies have been thumbed over and over for new phrases of vituperation; Uncle Sam is a spendthrift, a miser, a coward, a bully, a fat capitalist, a lean prude. But that he should be pictured as a seductive satyr piping innocent nymphs down the primrose path is hard to believe. Now, however, Senora Doloras Longoria of Mexico has returned to the land of bandits and bull-fights, after a sojourn in "New York, Chicago, and other American cities, where she has made...
...little white flags designating corpses found by rescue parties; muddy-yellowish slime and jagged stumps where once were orange blossoms; rotting carcasses on the $500,000 ranch of Cinemactor Harry Carey; total estimated property damage of $20,000,000. The revolting waters had tossed one sleeping farmer in a lean-to shack to the top of the canyon, saving his life. But his brother and niece in a nearby cabin were sucked into a watery death. At Newhall a morgue was established in a dance pavillion; 50 bodies lay in rows on tilted boards; an old sign over the door...