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...course of true love was not to run smooth by any means. In the big, wicked city, Myra interviewed her father's villainous lawyer, Scott Brantly. "Can you stand a shock- or several severe ones? Your father and your aunt are at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean," he announced. "Widows and orphans are execrating your father's name all over the land- he has made them lose their all." Pretty hard to take, all that, but not a patch on what was to follow. The wicked Brantly grew amorous. "His lips . . . resembled squirming purple worms...
...feet in height, of a heavy, compact build, with enormously broad shoulders. His face is full and oval, his jaw " one of the squarest and most determined in the United States," with a friendly, boyish and disarming smile. His forehead is high and broad. He has a great shock of brown hair reminiscent of Bryan in his youth. He is described as " a cross between William Jennings Bryan and James J. Jeffries...
...canteen worker. After the armistice she meets in a convalescent hospital her old lover who is now married to her best friend, and she feels it her duty to care for him and nurse him back to health. Meanwhile her father has gone bankrupt and has died from the shock, but Abigail, friendless and in financial straits, still has strength to refuse the wounded man's earnest proposal, though she loves him, and to make her way "into the black night--alone...
Since the recent use of adrenalin to resuscitate adults at the point of death from shock (TiME, April 14), the extract has again been employed with apparent success to start the life processes in four babies in the metropolitan district of New York, who were born dead or too weak to live. Keen interest in these cases is being displayed by medical men, and further study of the possibilities of adrenalin has been stimulated. At some hospitals it has been used extensively, though not specifically for this purpose. The delicate operation is attended by danger on account of the piercing...
...perhaps a shock to certain industrious vendors, to learn that their wares are illicit; and it will be an equal shock to many of their patrons. The recent court decision would apply equally to the College: lectures, until printed, are the property of the professors, and their sale for the profit of another person is illegal. In the College, however, leniency has been shown; many courses are largely an accumulation of fact, which can be conveniently condensed into notes; and such vest-pocket editions, properly used, do little harm. But in courses which are intended to develop processes of thinking...