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When female rats were raised (by Doctors Evans and Bishop) on a standard synthetic diet used in animal laboratories, containing vitamins A and B, they became fat, sleek and healthy, but practically all of them were sterile. When fresh green lettuce leaves were added to their menu, the sterile rats produced litters. Drs. Evans and Bishop found this X-substance also in the whole-wheat grain, egg yolk, beef liver and some other foods, but not in milk, the otherwise perfect food. The absence of Vitamin X affects the reproductive powers of the male, as well as the female...
...suggestive of Bulwer-Lytton?a Ouida plot elaborated with deliberate ornateness. The wicked Earl paints his eyelids. The innocent ward of a charming ex-roué, Charles Plethern, is nearly entrapped into an infamous bargain by Plethern's monstrous mother. The last, by the way, is an admirable character?a sleek, powerful woman who collects Rops etchings and erotic playing-cards and lives in a tower shudderously spoken of as the Devil's Candle. But, in spite of evil machinations, virtue triumphs at last...
...Crumb, finding himself alone in anything would very possibly go mad. They are gross, suffocating vulgarians. Among them are Orrin, the Gideonite salesman, bristling with esprit de corps; Tweet, his wife, "a fair thick being"; Mama Crumb, passive housewife ; Pearl, "a lovely, listless sister, a too mellow fruit"; Richmiel, sleek and perfumed, "whose body had seemed nine-tenths of her being" Grandfather Crumb, old, defeated, hopeless, ignored by the other Crumbs, but rising above them. Leda's defenses were being beaten down by the sheer gross weight of the Crumbs when Barnaby came. He was the divorced husband...
Down across the broad fields of by-ways of our land, on through main traveled roads and the busy thoroughfares of cities, drives the heavy chariot of Mars, his sleek black horses caparisoned with shining armor. As he sounds his silver bugle, thousands of fair youths heed its call, and trudge bravely forth to do his bidding. From shop and home they come, from the canons of great cities, from the gray cloisters of the universities, all march behind the great van of the tyrant, all with high ideals and hearts undisturbed by the grim realities around them. For theirs...
...sparkling high-comedy, strengthening every moment her position as one of our chiefest comediennes. "A Lady's Name" is hardly valuable for its story. In an effort to obtain "copy" for her novels although possessing a surly finance, advertises for a husband. Her most promising material appears in a sleek, oily gentleman's gentleman. So pleased is she with his novelizing possibilities that she invites herself to tea at his place of service. A bored gentleman, who comes in fun and stays at the lady's feet in earnest, turns out to be the butler's master. The complications arise...