"Talcum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Powdered. 100 grms. Chloroform (Squibb's). Fl. Ext. Ergot. Tinct. Green Soap. Bichloride Tablets. Lysol. Tube Sterilized Tape. Sterilized Soft Rubber Catheter. Sterilized Glass Catheter. Stocking Drawers, Sterilized. Talcum Powder. Bath Thermometer. ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague, M.D.
... received his caller in a couple of minutes. He was a well-fed gentleman with generous neck and chin, freshly shaved and rubbed with talcum powder. His clothing was handsome, his linen immaculate; one got the impression of a person who "did himself well." There were papers on his desk, and ...
— King Coal - A Novel • Upton Sinclair
... sunburn," confessed Sally. "I go deliberately out and let the sun smite me, first on the right cheek and then on the left. For awhile I burned my nose at the same time, which was not picturesque. But now I put a thick coating of talcum powder on my nose, and burn myself only where it ...
— Strawberry Acres • Grace S. Richmond
... old Blanket. Assorted Safety Pins. Soft Damask Towels. Wash Cloths. Hot-Water Bag with Canton Flannel Covers. Talcum Powder. Olive Oil. Bassinet. ...
— The Prospective Mother - A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy • J. Morris Slemons
... greases. The petroleum industry is the largest consumer. Minor uses are in the manufacture of pigments for printing wall papers, in detecting coloring matters in certain food-products, and as a substitute for talcum powder. ...
— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith
... that its public exposition has chiefly fallen, in these later days, into the hands of a sect of intellectual castrati, who begin by mistaking it for a sub-department of etiquette, and then proceed to anoint it with butter, rose water and talcum powder. Whenever a first-rate intellect tackles it, as in the case of Huxley, or in that of Leo XIII., it at once takes on all the sinister fascination it ...
— Damn! - A Book of Calumny • Henry Louis Mencken
... true—the world was a victim of "the German superstition." An intellectual cowardice, the fear of Force had made it admire en masse and indiscriminately, everything of Teutonic origin, just because of the intensity of its glitter—gold mixed with talcum. The so-called Latins, dazed with admiration, were, with unreasonable pessimism, becoming doubtful of their ability, and thus were the first to decree their own death. And the conceited Germans merely had to repeat the words of these pessimists ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez |
