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...life, however, was not completely cloistered. I often are banana sodas at the drug store and heard the conversation of the concupiscent, the dialogues of the damned. And there I heard of Cartrack, even saw Cartrack, pour soul and I will never be at peace until her story is told, for to me Cartrack is anepic figure, a Helen far from Troy, a Dido unheralded and unsung...
...Reichenbach concludes that Barnum was right, perhaps Hamilton also. He couches his sentiment in the following plebeian idioms: "This and my other experiences as an engineer of publicity have convinced me that the axis of the earth is lubricated with banana oil and that the world thrives on applesauce...
...them foreign born; in Italians, larger than Rome; in Irishmen, larger than Dublin; in Germans, larger than Bremen; in Jews, 10% of all those in the world; in telephones, more than in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Leningrad combined; in annual pork consumption, 450,000,000 lb.; in annual banana consumption, 435,000,000 lb.; in annual onion consumption, 85,000,000 lb.; in annual sugar consumption, 525,000,000 lb.; in total annual food consumption, four and a half million tons...
...diversion of certain modernist critics to write about music in terms of color, painting in the idiom of sound. They have pleasantly conjectured how Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would taste if the listener's auditory nerves were transferred to his lips; what sort of noise a banana would make did the observer devour it with his ears. Last week Harry Grindell-Matthews, British inventor of the "death-ray" (TIME, June 2 & 9, 1924, SCIENCE), demonstrated certain devices with which he had turned theoretical flippancies of the dilettanti into mechanical realism. It is of course an impossibility to rearrange...
Tumor is hereditary in the common or wop banana fly Homeopath Mary B. Stark has discovered after ten years research. She described her efforts to breed out tumors in six generations of insects...