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Brooks and Upton are the authors of the verses accompanying the pictures. Written in loosely romantic iambic couplets, with not a little keenness of epigrammatic twist to the tail, the verses stand in satirical, if not salacious wit, with the slim volume of sonnets issued last year by a New Haven bookseller...
...Carlos Chagas and the late Dr. Oswaldo Cruz of Rio de Janeiro traced the disease in Brazil. The "barber bug" sucks the blood of armadillos and other rodents infected with the local trypanosomes. Then the bug bites humans, depositing the trypanosomes in the wound. The parasites twist through the blood, causing fever and other malaise. By and by they drill into the heart and other muscles and the thyroid and adrenal glands, bone marrow and brain, where they change their form and multiply. Their spreading through the heart muscle may cause death. The adrenal attack colors the skin bronze...
...then he sat almost upright, bent, however, on a bagatelle of introspection. What was wrong with himself? Wasn't he a gentleman? True, he did not twist puppy-dog tails, but then he had no poise. And what is one without the other? quotha. No, he wasn't a gentleman...
...christened Elsa von Wenden, began drawing at the age of three, illustrated the Bible and Oliver Twist (as told by her sister) at six. At 17 she married Jorg von Reppert-Bismarck, not many years her elder, whose great-grandfather was the great Bismarck's first cousin. Her husband gave her the nickname "Jack" which she signs to all her paintings, and which he pronounces "Jake...
...vain for the reviewer to twist and turn phrases in an attempt to catch the curious interest and charm of this autobiography of man and of nation. But he can at least promise that in reading it, there will be no waste and no regret...