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...dark, massive, earnest man, stalwart and commanding, arrived at Brussels last week, and established himself with a few faithful retainers in cheap and modest quarters...
...There is opium in paregoric (baby-soother), in Dover's powder (cold remedy), and in many another household drug, drugs that seem kind. Opium gum looks like black paste. Addicts who smoke it use a small lamp, like a dentist's lamp, over which they give the dark pellet a slow roasting; then they put it in the tiny bowl of a long pipe. Their dreams are gentle. Opium does not waste tissues so quickly as does alcohol...
...Paul Bunyan's "minktums" and "tigermonks." Natural scientists suspected it was a cross between a lynx and a house cat. Nature lovers recalled that Naturalist Henry David Thoreau, in his book Walden mentioned a "winged cat." It was the pet of a farmer-neighbor, d scribed as "dark brownish grey color, with a white spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming strips ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and under...
...liberty. The question: "Resolved: Monarchy is the best policy." Then they went to Baltimore for the first international-interracial college debate on record. In Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, before an audience 95% Negro, they again lost the Prohibition issue, to the serious statistics and idealism of dark-skinned silver-tongues from Lincoln University. Speaker Turner of Lincoln made obeisance to the fame of Oxford, mentioning Poet Tennyson as one of her illustrious graduates. Speaker Franklin of Oxford, replying with thanks, was obliged to disown Lord Tennyson, who went to Cambridge. "And Oxford," he added, "is a seat of learning...
...DARK OF THE MOON-Sara Teas-dale-Macmillan ($1.50). The sea, it is said, is the great civilizer. Sara Teasdale (Mrs. Ernst B. Filsinger) of St. Louis, Mo., has walked and lain long beside it, learning over and over the sea's "immemorial yearning" until it has become her own. Rest from restless beauty is her desire. Her best poems are fragile meshes of silence and loneliness, written on beaches, cliffs and sea-hills, at the days rare moments and the year's empty seasons. Then, she says, I shall gather myself into myself again...