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...personally. For had not she and her sisters in singing had years of preparation before they were ready for the Metropolitan? She was indignant, protested last week against the system which would permit of such a premature Metropolitan debut. Said she: "No singer should be subjected to such a test without at least ten years' preparatory work on other stages. . . . Too much publicity at an early age and not enough hard work are the ailments affecting the present generation of vocal students. When I was a student every waking hour was spent in study. Now there seem...
...little scene on Boston Common had been most elaborately led up to. First Dr. Chase ? offended by an article called "Hatrack" which dealt with copulation in a cemetery ? had ordered newsdealers to remove the American Mercury from their stands. Editor Mencken, on advice of counsel, determined to test the validity of the order...
...With the arrest of Weisbord last week, and of one of the several New York lawyers who came out to test the validity of the riot act, it seems as though these authorities had about reached the end of their rope...
Rapid Blood Tests. The careful Wassermann blood test for syphilis requires five reagents and almost 24 hours' reacting time, an inconvenience to the diagnostician and a nerve-racking wait for the patient. Dr. R. le Kahn of the Michigan State Health Department demonstrated a new test which requires only one reagent and 15 minutes to show definitely the blood condition. His department and the U. S. Navy have adopted his quick method, it was said...
Such a novel was "The Amateur Gentleman", such a novel is "The High Adventure". Jeremy Veryan with his stick and his dog and his prowess at arms and the game beloved of a certain Marquis of Queensbury betakes himself forth upon his highway. And many adventures curious and great test the stick and the dog and the prowess. For there are always evils to meet on any highway, especially a Jeffrey Farnol highway. Yet Jeremy has the light of dauntlessness in his eyes-and he loves a lady-two inimitable means of success in novels-or even in life...