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...Roman Pope-was not deceived. Speedily he notified his colleagues that he had issued no invitation of any sort. Pointing at the package, with fearful, hoarse solemnity he said: "It may be a bomb, or worse! Some of my friends warned me that it might be a deadly germ carrier. I will not be picked up by any of the tricks of the Jesuits...
...would take a blind man, a hypocrite, or a total abstainer from Boston parties to deny that there is not at least a germ of truth in the picture which Miss Lowella Cabot paints in the Advocate of the Harvard man off on a tear in Boston. Overdrawn the picture is, of course, but no more off the plumb line than is necessary for good satire...
...young man is once inoculated with the polo germ, he never recovers, he will play the game the rest of his life," asserted Devereux Milburn, famous internationalist player in an interview with the CRIMSON reporter recently. Mr. Milburn, a graduate of the Harvard Law School, is one of three ten-goal handicap men in the country and is considered by experts to be the game's greatest exponent...
...Aycock and his fellows have tried in vain to obtain a serum from the blood of artifically infected monkeys, for the monkey, although the only animal susceptible to the disease, is so sensitive that it cannot survive the attack of the paralysis germ. For this reason the Commission is requesting volunteers, survivors of the disease, to come forward with offers of their own blood. So far as results to date have been tabulated, the serum treatment seems a remedy for infantile paralysis if it is administered within the three days which ordinarily elapse between infection and actual paralysis...
MOSQUITOES-William Faulkner-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). A dozen mosquitoes gather on a yacht in southern waters. The mosquitoes are: unctuous Mrs. Maurier, queen mosquito, owner of the yacht, collector of eccentric celebrities; over-mannered Mr. Talliaferro, who carries a malaria germ of artistic small talk; Jennie and Pete, lower order of flies-by-night invited on the party by Patricia, a young mosquito who, none the less, administers the most powerful sting. Other insects-an author, a smalltime poet with a dull buzz, a sculptor-swarm drowsily in the lethargic air. Love affairs, talk, small business, occupy their time until...