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Also, on shipboard other aging passengers squinted shaggy eyes at this old man who was so sprightly, who held himself so chirky. Two or three of these oldsters remembered him 24 years before when in Chicago he cured the then Lolita Armour (now Mrs John J. Mitchell Jr.) and so gained his U. S. fame. At that time he was beginning to look seedy, to show signs of weariness (his manual operation requires terrific force). What had made him grow so vital, so virile? True he was slightly deaf. But otherwise he seemed a man in full prime. Dr. Lorenz...
...some years, in corollary to the trust-busting proclivities of President Roosevelt, the pseudo-monopolistic business of Swift & Co., of the Armour Co., and of the other large packers, lay under cloud in the public mind. True, they had corralled livestock, slaughtering and marketing control into few hands, had almost ruled the meat business of this country. Then came the War, during which the quintessence of centralized control over every commodity was the sine qua non of victory, and the U. S. Army Quartermaster Corps found its rationing problems simplified. General Knisgern, Zone Supply Officer, stationed at Chicago, was especially...
...Lorenz came in 1921 with his sons, Albert and Conrad, as assistants. His intentions were to reduce, in clinic, skeletal deformities by manipulative surgery similar to his operation in Chicago 19 years before on Lolita Armour. He was world-famed for his technique; would do much good to some cripples; would attract medical and surgical students to his amphitheatre, students who might later attend his Viennese clinics to his legitimate profit as a teacher. But the press took him up; touted him throughout the land; raised fond hopes in hearts of cripples everywhere. These rushed to his free clinics...
...years later he is toping and caroling in an inn, faced with ruin and the loss of Jean Armour, whose father will not let him marry her. Rather than be arrested he decides to print his songs. Again he is in Edinburgh, lionized after the publication of his first poems but unwilling to stoop for patronage. There he meets the diffident boy, Walter Scott; there as in the country he teaches the lasses to sing...
...shimmering universe in place of the old and ragged one. This transformation can be accomplished only through the stage breaking away from its present narrow limits and taking all of life as its domain. The actor is to become a crusader going into the arena resplendent in the shining armour of his art. He is to fight the great battle with that malignant it otherwise known as human destiny. He is to become a mummer of merely carrying first aid to the wretched and miserable left wounded and bleeding on life's battlefield by the inexorableuess of fate...