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...Adams, for instance, described the English poet Richard Monckton Milnes as a gifted eccentric "with a Falstaffian mask and laugh of Silenus." But Clover drew an unforgettable sketch: "As for Milnes, he shows little of the ideal poet. He is old and stout, very scrubbily dressed, his teeth vanish down his throat when he giggles, which is very often, and then, by a most interesting tour de force, he reinstates them; and his method of eating is more startling than elegant, but it all amuses one, and he is kindly and full of life...
...fast scientific stride Biologist William Firth Wells, industrious instructor of sanitary science at the Harvard School of Public Health, has made oyster eggs germinate artificially and by means of artificial sunlight made germs vanish from thin air. Last week after working persistently against smaller & smaller forms of life, Biologist Wells was able to announce that by means of ultraviolet light he destroys the minuscule cause of influenza as it floats...
After three more spins of the wheel steam hissed from the boiler, and the emblems began to twirl slowly. After that the smile did not vanish from Mr Ford's face except when a photographer dropped his flash bulb, scattering magnesium foil across the immaculate floor...
Dictators not only make history but hurry it: they must become a living legend or their power will vanish. Hitler has turned the trick as far as Germany is concerned. Without a Jena or an Austerlitz, without even an Aduwa, he has become to Nazi Germany what Napoleon was to France, what Mussolini is to Italy. Of all the world's verbal and printed criticism of Hitler and his works, little percolates beyond the Rhine. Certainly neither the Realmleader nor any other inhabitant of Germany is likely to see either of the biographies U. S. readers were popping their...
Kings' fortunes vanish into the realm of the mysterious because what a King saves up and bequeaths to his heirs is subject to no probate, no inheritance tax. Queen Victoria, having ascended the throne practically penniless, saved at least $9,000,000. Edward VII was a spendthrift. George V was as thrifty as his grandmother. How big a fortune he passed on to King Edward VIII nobody except the Royal family now knows...