Furthermore, it is possible that there occasionally arises what may be called a mutant of very desirable character from a eugenic point of view.

It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

Now the supreme fact of his childhood, as of the childhood of most of us, was familyhood, which had conditioned and determined all his early life.

The latest entry in the lexicon of food-related ills is drunkorexia, shorthand for a disturbing blend of behaviors: self-imposed starvation or bingeing and purging, combined with alcohol abuse .