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...have founded an open-air theatre. I have organized schools and workshops to renew the Italian traditions of the minor arts. I beat on iron, I blow glass, I engrave hard stones, I print with my wood blocks, I color stuffs, I carve bone and boxwood, I interpret the recipes of Caterina Sforza and I distill perfumery. And I beg the head of the government of Italy to accept my offering whole and entire, and to declare it to be irrevocable and inalienable in any way or at any time; witness the living who are alert and the dead...
Behemoth has been laid low by the jaw bone of an ass. Two days ago the Democrats rode to victory over the Republicans on the issues of prohibition and the business depression. They were good talking points. The triumph carries with it great significance: The people may not have proved a Democratic supremacy in the Senate, but they have voiced dissatisfaction with President Hoover and they have launched a preliminary attack on the eighteenth amendment...
...years ago he decided to experiment on stubborn cases of osteomyelitis. Osteomyelitis is an infectious inflammation of the bone marrow or of the marrow and the bone. The bone rots, and then adjacent flesh. It is more common in children than in adults. It is difficult to cure. If unrestrained it may kill quickly or may last for years. The usual treatment is to cut out the decayed bone and flesh, often repeatedly...
Perhaps the most important piece archaeologically is the bone figure of a god (loaned by the Iraq Museum), tiny in size but executed with great delicacy and feeling. Aside from its purely aesthetic appeal, its similarity to works of the Hittite country makes it very significant...
...Frederic (Irene Castle) McLaughlin, onetime dancer, animal lover,*was thrown, suffered a broken collar bone when her hunter stumbled into a hole as he approached a jump west of Lake Forest...