Word: powdering
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...German surgeons who were in congress at Berlin last week, Dr. Carl H. von Noorden sent his report from his clinic at Frankfurt-am-Main. He wrote that he had succeeded in making an extract of animal pancreases. This extract he had reduced to powder then compressed into tablets. Patients whom insulin sickened could swallow his tablets. He called this extract "horment...
...TIME, March 24, 1924), onetime (1911-13, 1913-22, resigned) Senator, now presiding Judge of Iowa in the Federal Court of Appeals, unmitigatedly damned the folly of parents who send their sons to college with automobiles, said: "Rather than do that I would buy 30 cents' worth of powder and blow him up. It would be fairer to the boy." Much more he said, called Judge Ben Lindsey's trial marriage proposal (TIME, Jan. 24) "absurd idea," said of famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson that she "crossed the entire country capitalizing her notoriety...
...find he has caught a liability instead of an asset. And here is the end of the second act, with the playwright-actor of his own U. S. comedy still unworthy in the sight of the audience. How to reveal a heart of gold in the bad man? A powder mill explodes. Heroic qualities erupt. With nobility thus suddenly emergent, the ending triumphs happily for all, including the audience...
...William Ziegler (baking powder...
...American aristocracy must be nursed with flattery..... The farseeing painter will see that the shades of hair, face and eyes comply with the subject's desires, whether they match the actualities or not. . . . Everything has to be subordinated to the lips and the hue of the face powder. If we get those two right, the rest is easy. ... If I have any difficulty with the eyes, I generally paint them almost blue. One can never go wrong with blue...