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...funeral wreaths is embracing his wife's maid, who is also having an affair with the son of a schoolteacher, who, in turn, is mixed up with the nymphomaniac daughter of the owner of the local chocolate factory. Although a sombre political note runs through all these complex relationships, the political confusions are less interesting than the amorous ones, and the passions unleashed are well-nigh sufficient to explain the disasters that have since overtaken France...
Snake Venom. From a snake farm near Sāo Paulo, Brazil came Professor Maocyr E. Alvaro to tell of the effects of snake venom on eyes. Snake venom is a highly complex compound of proteins and enzymes which vary in quality and proportion with the species of snake. Two constituents of venom have already been isolated; one is a specific nerve poison which makes an excellent painkiller when diluted; the other is an enzyme which causes coagulation of the blood. There is a third principle not yet isolated, said Professor Alvaro, which affects only the eyes. Patients treated...
...seen on the stage in its full proportions, Hamlet is possibly more of a riddle than ever; but at least, by offering the spectator all the clues, it gives him a far better chance to guess for himself. In the usual acting version, Hamlet confines itself to a single complex character study; uncut, it becomes also a swirling, tumultuous drama of court life and court intrigue. Such characters as Polonius, Fortinbras, the King take on added size. Denmark's dark, uneasy political fortunes constantly impinge upon the action. Some of the problems which have haunted generations of scholars...
...crude oil. Initiated by small independents in the non-prorated States of Louisiana and Arkansas, the cuts were soon adopted by everyone, dropping the price from $1.22 to about $1.02, the first general cut since NRA. Thus brought into the open was a paradox which may knock the complex proration system galley-west: an efficient method of controlling production has been worked out, but since the Federal antitrust suit against the oil industry at Madison, Wis. last year, there has been no way of stabilizing the price or the quantity of refined petroleum...
...Lawrence Lowell has picked out certain of the most important conclusions he has reached and has arranged them in a book, some what vaguely termed "What a University President Has Learned." It must be said that the book is less distinguished than the author, and looms rather disjointed and complex in the reader's mind although it is not complex in the reader's mind although it is not much more than a hundred pages in length. It is written in a style that is scholarly and dignified, although occasionally obscure...