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...Xray. They found that certain salts injected into the body are eliminated through the bile, which is stored in the gallbladder. They knew that iodin and bromin salts are opaque to the Roentgen ray. They secured a combination of these salts and obtained X-ray pictures of the abdomen in which the gallbladder, previously invisible because of soft tissue, appeared almost as clearly as did the bones themselves. Stones in the gallbladder were localized easily. At the meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in Washington, D. C., $600 of the $1,000 Leonard Prize for accomplishment...
...well remember, as a boy, looking through a microscope into the abdomen of a dead man and seeing all sorts of squirming worms. My father wrote to inquire whether anybody knew what it was. It was stated that the man had eaten raw pork a few days before his death...
...doubles, Howard Kinsey and his brother Robert (No. 16 in ranking) were leading Tilden and Sandy Wiener when Robert crashed full length to the court with cramp in the abdomen. The match went to Tilden and Wiener by default, but Johnston and Clarence J. ("Peck") Griffin overcame them in the final...
...about Caruso's "large paid claque." (TIME, Apr. 6.) Who, we ask, ever accused Caruso of a claque? We agree that, in his youth, Caruso loved Bronx Park, he was no moral stickler, he was fond of his spaghetti, his jokes may have been coarse, his "abdomen large." But Caruso had a voice, whoever gave it to him, God, Lucifer, or Nature−it was there as natural as morning, as awe-inspiring as the elements. A super-voice needs no claque, sirs, and what's more, this voice had none. Ask the box office of the Metropolitan...
Beniamino Gigli is large of abdomen, has an amiable face, less histrionic ability and a voice. Gigli opens his mouth: the moon rides the sky over Venice, slides on, past the windows of the Procuratie Nuove, into the sea; a thousand nightingales awake in cold orchards, anguished with woe and desire for the rose, the white rose of the moon, that the dawn has taken; under a black balcony rises, from unseen lips, a whisper Juliet heard, and Heloise-which tired, tired ladies in upholstered boxes hear again, not daring to open their eyes. Gigli is a friend of Toscanini...