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...translating if English-writing dramatists could learn of the debonair didos that presumably occur in Vienna and Budapest after the curtains are drawn. But to most English-writing dramatists sex remains the cue for either a problem play or an Oriental extravaganza. Therefore central Europe is combed for playwrights akin to the gently libidinous Ferenc Molnar. One of the latest combings is Lili Hatvany, authoress of The Love Duel...
...greatness. For Boswell repots him to have maintained that the weather had no effect whatsoever upon the human disposition and to have scorned the weakness of his biographer who admitted to depression during long periods of inclement weather. The Vagabond is forced to admit that he finds himself more akin to the latter, and in an effort to find material for cheer during the current period of depression made some discoveries that may assist those of his readers who admit to a similar weakness...
...Akin to this experiment was the decapitation of a dog by two other Moscow men. S. S. Brukhanenko and Sergei Chechulin. To the head arteries they connected a pump which forced oxygenated blood to the amputated head, which, like John the Baptist's rested on a plate. The head's eyes moved. They closed when a strong light was flashed at them. The ears wiggled. The tongue ejected a piece of cotton soaked with acid, and swallowed a piece of cheese. For three and a half hours these natural reactions continued. By that time the venous blood became too heavy...
...modern Europe. These languages. Tokhanian. Eastern Iranian. Togdian, have not only disappeared many centuries ago, but, with the exception of Togdian, we had not even an intimation that they had ever existed, and all our conceptions of Aslatic history have been greatly changed by the fact that languages akin to ours were once spoken on the Western borders of China. Moreover, the artistic remains discovered or unearthed in Chinese Turkestan and Western china have given us the missing links for the transmission from Bastriana (present northen Afghanistan) to the Far East of motifs and types which combine in new formulae...
Speculator Smith calculates that if, in the next week, these stocks each rise even only 20 points (and all have been known to rise 20 points in a few hours) he will have a profit of $10,000. He feels akin to Arthur Cutten and the Fishers...