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...three drops of blood are taken from a finger or an ear lobe and centrifuged to remove all red blood cells. Then the clear serum is mixed with several drops of the antigen, a witches' brew of benzoin (a resin from Java or Sumatra), cholesterol (alcohol which occurs in bile), scarlet red (a dye), plain salt water, and alcoholic beefheart extract. If syphilis antibodies are present in the blood, coarse particles develop in the colorless fluid, and clumps of red granules appear around the edges of the mixture. Since the reaction is clearly visible to the naked...
...third score came when Phil Brew, Elephant back, attempted to pass from behind his own goal line and threw the ball into the arms of Avergun, who had only to take two steps to score...
...Three saloons later, Mr. Heidelberg confided to an L. S. U. sophomore that he was mighty worried about complaints against him that had been made to Acting President Paul M. Hebert. Thereupon George Heidelberg rode home to his house in Baton Rouge, sent the cabbie to the kitchen to brew him a pot of strong coffee, and pumped a bullet through his head...
Eliot's serial attack with Bob Russell on the throwing end, Fred Pops on the receiving and Don Brew on both ends at one time or another, clicked for the second time in two games, but for the second time it was not quite good enough to score. Ned Reed, versatile athletic star, also caught a pass...
Small Beer, an aptly titled profusely illustrated collection of ten stories and sketches, is authentic Bemelmans brew. From his hotel background (Bemelmans once managed a small swanky restaurant on Manhattan's upper East side) comes the story of Gabriel, the perfect maitre d'hotel, who revealed his true genius at the super-swanky birthday party for Mrs. George Washington Kelly, the story of another maitre whose phobia was The Blue Danube. Among minor classics of travel literature is Bemelmans' account of a small island off the coast of France, where Madame Clamart, because of an unfortunate experience...