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DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS-Eugene O'Neill bites below the thick skin of New England farmer loneliness. Infidelity in the foothills...
...Sporting Club of France, Georges Carpentier, "Gorgeous Orchid Man," competed with William Harrison Dempsey. High was the goal, the battle stiff. First Dempsey, then Carpentier led; but at last the U. S. pugilist weakened, his thick struts could no longer hoist his knotted bulk; Carpentier took a great leap to the fore, carried off the victory. The event was high jumping. Dempsey missed at 5 ft. 1 in.; Carpentier cleared...
...nose, pigeon toes, thick lips...
...well-known British cleric exclaimed: "I call it positively wicked and insulting to perpetrate such a travesty." Said Mr. Epstein: "The figure I have produced appeals to me as one of infinite pity, looking upon the world of sorrow with deep compassion." It had a pug nose, pigeon toes, thick lips...
...Receding foreheads, massive jaws, prognathous chins, unsymmetrical skulls, long ears, rectilinear noses, thick hair and thin beards-by such physical marks Lombroso would have identified born criminals...