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True, the war men now marching through his dominion called themselves "The Black." They were "The Enemy" in occupation. But their speech be trayed them???they were countrymen...
...lips, the delicate bluish bloom on black cheeks, who came to stay with them. The blacks live so near the earth their roots go down into it like the roots of trees. Mrs. Peterkin understands these twisted roots, their fumbling, struggling, grappling, and the secret chemistries that work in them??? sorrow and wonder, sweetness and regret, life and love and death...
...fifth man joined them???Malcolm Stevenson, for whom Strawbridge had substituted as Third Horseman when Stevenson was lugged from the field unconscious in the first game. He, too, raised the cup, arrested it at his lips, passed it on to a sixth man standing by. The sixth man smiled, bowed, drank. After Edward of Wales, Stevenson had his draught...
...long been known that the growth of hair, plumage, etc., is largely a secondary sex characteristic?i.e., that it is a sort of by-product of the activity of the sex glands. But Dr. Voronoff's claims?if, indeed, he has made them???go a great deal further than this simple scientific knowledge suggests. At the present stage of matters, these claims are a press report? no more; and it is well to keep in mind that the press's reports on scientific matters are generally about as reliable and discriminating as a plumber's reports on pharmacy...
...Knopf ($2.00). Off on a holiday to Italy, suffering from shell-shock, a professor meets a soldier of fortune. Together, they discover a super-man? "the richest man in the world." "He is not one of the millionaires you read about in the newspapers: he is the man behind them???the biggest of them all. He has forests in Canada, ruby mines in the Urals, radium deposits in Brazil, hotels in Japan. There are trust and holding companies and secret agreements. It is a wonderful affair!" This fantastic creature is the storm-centre of startling events, in which...