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Especially enthusiastic was the audience over the rendering of the Dance of the Seven Veils from "Salome". Of this version, one critic said, "The music exhales languors, weaves repetitions, sensuously rustles and prickles. When Strauss would have it a smother of sensuality in the full, thick, velvet voices of horns and violoncellos; when he would have his wood-winds bite as with the little white teeth of Salome in the old chronicles; when the dance ends in a whirr of trills, high and shrill, darting and piercing, the conductor was heightening voice to the composer and as quick, sure-fingered...
...course of the blasting the miners had to run many risks and had many narrow escapes from flying rock. Two and a half kegs of black-powder were used and from 40 to 50 tons of rock were lifted in one explosion which cut off some trees 18 inches thick that grew farther down the mountain. The cliff on which the work was done was very steep and rose for 400 feet on the side of the mountain. One large boulder 40 feet long and 10 feet wide was found some distance on occasion and smaller fragments from the block...
...once the curious began to ask: "Will Stearns be another Colonel House?" The facts of the relationship between Mr. Stearns and the President seem to be simply these: that Stearns has supported Coolidge through the thick and thin of politics. That he was Coolidge's right hand man in the settlement of the Boston police strike. These activities earned Stearns the titles from political opponents of "Lord Lingerie" and "Cal's Angel." As far as several able political correspondents can make out, however, the relation between Mr. Stearns and the new President is only about as "sinister" as friendship...
...general one to the monkey. The incisions are made, and one of the monkey's gonads is sliced into six pieces thin enough for the interstitial cells of the patient quickly to interpenetrate them. In earlier operations Voronoff had failures because the transplanted portions were too thick and died before they could knit up with the human glands. Within a few weeks the new tissue becomes continuous with the old, and its hormones begin their beneficial flow. Blood pressure diminishes, sight improves, metabolism is intensified, muscles regain their spring, and new hair grows. Voronoff told the surgeons that a great...
...Henry Maybury, considered the greatest expert on roads in the world, gave a few interesting side-lights on that yellow-back, thick, choking, aeriform known prosaically as " London...