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...champagne and good cheer. He has suffered a lot and knew privation in his youth; and now abandons himself licentiously to pleasures. The dancers of the old Russian ballet and the beautiful women of Leningrad are flattered to be the friends of Zinoviev. Being very generous, nothing is too precious for his friends. Pearl necklaces, Imperial jewels, famous paintings, Gobelin tapestries are to be found today in the hands of the women who enjoy Zinoviev's friendship...
...quickers who have strewed tin cans, romance, and their own bones on every trail from civilization to gold field since the days of '49. Gold Dust is the new town and the howling desert is its back yard. All the old setting is there: wild rumors, pokes filled with precious dust, a mad scramble for claims, tents, grimy men, and tired women. The automobile is the one touch of the twentieth century, and it is used merely to give light for night digging...
With the increasing subjection of faculty, as of students, to the time-clock regime, the tradition of scholarly leisure becomes more and more precious. As the academic profession falls within the grasp of efficient doers, the triple-distilled essence of Copey's individuality is the more highly prized. His is a distinct personality which stimulates in those whom he touches a wide gamut of emotional vibration, ranging from admiration...
...light and buoyant. Several hundred sailors hanging on heavy tow lines could not haul her down, and when one of the tow lines snapped, to the discomfiture of the straining gobs, she sailed off again. Admiral Moffett was obliged to give radio orders for release of some of the precious helium, before the ship could be maneuvered into position against the platform where the President and Mrs. Coolidge were standing. "I christen thee Los Angeles," cried Mrs. Coolidge and pulled a ribbon which released a flock of pigeons. Fastened to the pigeons' legs were quotations from St. Luke...
Here is a new temptation to solve the old problem of alchemy?how to make gold. Here is the 80th electron of a mercury atom revolving around its nucleus, much like a planet around the sun, waiting to be knocked off and leave the precious old Midas-metal in the chemist's palm...