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...serve as a nurse in the Cherbourg naval hospital. A severe wound forced her to leave the service. She was awarded the silver Medal of Honor. Flammarion made her his partner, collaborator, housekeeper. On Sept. 9, 1919, he married her. Their wedding caused the worthies of Juvissy to whisper the inevitable ribaldries that occur to the vulgar whenever an aging celebrity marries a young girl. It is only recently that the public has learned the part she actually took in his work...
Brave days are still remembered in that house. Along its corridors goes Cosima Wagner, his widow-a grim, gaunt woman with the eyes of a sick eagle and the mouth of a field marshal; up and down she parades, while her petticoat rustles. The whisper of memories, ludicrous, pathetic, stirs to the swish of the old woman's skirt along the empty hall. ... A shaggy little man contorted over the piano, begging his wife to walk up and down the room because he "so loves the rustle of silk. ..." A swollen little man, throned among his friends, shouting...
...been about to serve with and lifted a lean face, whittled leaner by anxiety and irritation, toward the yelling, jostling hooligans in the stands. The umpire besought order; the noise dwindled; again the sping-spung of balls became audible. Lott took the ninth game; the crowd did not whisper now. With wracking caution, Tilden brought the score to deuce. Another game for Lott. Then a sweeping, irresistible rally, three games, the match, for Tilden...
...gossips could accurately say. All agreed, however, that it was something of vast moment-epochal, recondite, revolutionary. Some averred that these men of science had devised a terrific explosive, others that they had found a way to harness the electron. Wild fellows even declared, in a parched whisper, that they had made a synthetic...
...TIMER," may I have your ear one moment to whisper a slogan which, to me at least, is appropriate for your excellent publication...