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Hereditary Cancer. Most authorities hold that cancer or susceptibility to or resistance to the disease is peculiar to each individual, that none of these conditions can be inherited. However Miss Maude Slye of Chicago, who for 18 years has been experimenting on mice with cancer, claimed last week that the ability to resist the disease is inheritable, that she has prevented its appearance in 25 generations of mice, that the American Association for Control of Cancer should be condemned for not warning the public of these facts...
...works of the great lexicographer. And in Emerson D Professor Hocking manifestly welcomes argument on the Case of Democracy--argument perhaps a trifle subtle for Vagabondian comprehension--but at all events, worth while. Yet the Semitic Museum will no doubt win the day, for no Vagabond can resist the temptation to hear of his ancestors, and Professor Hooton in Room A will talk on the Cro-Magnon Man foremost of Vagabonds. Thus endeth the morning. And Boze Suyder is playing at Waldron's in the afternoon...
...feminine equivalent of bluff gives a distinctively piquant flavor to penny ante. Few strong men holding good hands can resist the appeal of a womanly raise when deuces are wild. Small wonder therefore that British auction players fear for the future of their game. Once more, London Bridge is falling down...
...misinterpret me by saying that I don't like French and Italian operas. In the old favorites of Meyerbeer, Verdi and Rossini there is an appeal which no lover of music can resist. All three composers attain moments of depth. Nevertheless when I want music which I know will have the effect of satisfying me completely I turn to Wagner. I love the Ring of the Nigbelingen and am never quite certain which individual opera stands foremost in my affections. 'Die Walkure', judging from the number of times it has been produced, is probably the popular favorite. The role...
...collar factory at Lycurgus, N. Y. His own neckwear improves. He sniffs wealth and position, smears oil on his hair and his manners. He puts afoot a promising campaign for the hand, body and prestige of Sondra Finchley, social princess of Lycurgus. While that plan is maturing, he cannot resist indulging in one of the factory girls, Roberta Alden. The physiological consequence is normal...