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Then in 1936 he made his Broadway debut in Sweet Aloes and hit the top.

From Time Magazine Archive

Aloes, of which there are several kinds, have been used as a colouring ingredient, but the results are not on the whole to be considered as good.

From The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Petherick, Horace

Almanack—Buy an, 60, 341 Aloes, that blossom rarely, 140 Anchovies—Buy my, &c.,

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles

An Herbary or alphabetical Materia Medica of herbs & other drugs; beginning with Aloen, Aloes, Aurum, and ending with Zelboarium.

From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair

For the Cataract: Take one Scruple of washt Aloes finely beaten, and two Scruples of Sugar-candy, mix these together, and with a Quil blow it three or four times a day into your Hawks Eye.

From The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing by Howlett, Robert