Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scion of an ancient Spanish family, grandee by birth and inclination, rich, sophisticated. He was the son of Don Rafael Marquis Merry del Val, secretary to the Spanish ambassador at London. His mother, the granddaughter of Brodie McGee Willcocks, onetime M. P., had mingled a strain of English blood with Merry del Val's paternal Spanish. Born in London, Merry del Val had been educated at Baylis House. He completed his theological studies in Rome and was ordained priest...
Vitally important is the synthesizing of hematin, the red iron core which carries oxygen into the blood. Hans Fischer, 47, of the Munich (Germany) Institute of Technology worked on the problem 17 years and, last week, reported success. His synthetic he calls Hematine. In normal breathing, the blood's hemoglobin, which includes hemochromogen (compound of hematin), takes oxygen from the lungs and forms unstable oxyhemoglobin. Oxyhemoglobin readily gives its oxygen to body cells. When carbon monoxide is breathed, very stable carbon monoxide hemoglobin* results and the body cells cannot burn off their wastes, death results. In such poisoning Prof...
...Duke Alexander Michailovitch Romanov-surviving cousin and brother-in-law of Tsar Nicholas the Last-from wearing whenever he chooses a red boutonniere. Thus last week His Imperial Highness, who is now lecture-touring U. S. cities, received smart Manhattanites in his suite at the Hotel Ritz with a blood-red rosebud peeping from his buttonhole. The thing was urbanely and genuinely done. "I am of no party," smiled the Grand Duke, and presently charmed his guests by chatting not only of himself and Russia but about the two other Romanov grand dukes who were most in the public...
...study of Queen Victoria, Strachey crystallized a period of history; in his portrait of Elizabeth he creates a symbol of sovereignty, withal flesh and blood...
Died. Count Luigi Cadorna, 78, wartime Commander in Chief of the Italian Army; from a cerebral blood clot; in Bordighera, Italy...