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...amateur chorus, a green Scarpia (Lawrence Tibbett), the lack of an organ and the sluggish conducting of Merola. . . . Any unforeseen gap she [Jeritza] would fill with her bloodcurdling shrieks or her hollow whispers; she raved, raced and ranted all over the scene, she trembled like a palsied aspen leaf; betimes she played the accomplished acrobat, and, of course, she sang most of the 'Viss d'Arte' lying face downward, as if praying to Proserpine through a crack in the floor...
Milk. Like the Postum Co. and Kroger Grocery & Baking Corp., the Borden Co. is constantly acquiring lesser and allied firms. Borden's latest acquisitions are Thompson's Malted Milk Co., Kennedy Dairy Co. and Clover Leaf Milk...
...shoulder with fine cilia which vibrate (in life) so rapidly one after another around the circle of shoulder that the whole body seems to rotate. They are voracious and pugnacious, crouching on a microscopic plant and then swiftly springing at a stray water flea, a protozoa, a bit of leaf...
...clothe herself in "the only available fig leaf." There were plenty. For (Genesis III, 7) "they [Adam and Eve] sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons...
Pious Merchant Tailors should honor no more fig leaf or apron of fig leaves, but rather the Lord God, as the true originator of their ancient profession...