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Prince Mohammed Ah Ibrahim of Egypt is a spectacular figure in Europe's baccarat belt. He traces his ancestry back to Mehemet Ali Pasha, the "Terrible Turk" who conquered all Egypt in 1805, beat the British at Rosetta, decorated the streets of Cairo with the bluish severed heads of British soldiers. Prince Ibrahim disregards his cousin, Egypt's plump King Fuad I, nor is he interested in Egyptian politics. On an income of $150,000 a year, he confines his interests to champagne, roulette, a beautiful wife and numerous attractive friends. Also he takes a sparring partner with...
...exposed to an ultraviolet ray source an electric charge is created in proportion to the ray's intensity. This charge is accumulated in a condenser until a given potential is set up. Then the condenser discharges and, in the Rentschler meter, makes an argon tube give out a bluish flash and simultaneously causes a pencil to mark the occurrence on a chart. The time between the flashes and the tracings on the chart measures the strength of the ultraviolet rays...
...auto-intoxication and not to pigmentation. I changed the eyes of one woman from brown to gray within five months. I could not have done it if the color of the eye had been caused by pigmentation, as pigmentation cannot be altered. All babies are born with a bluish colored eye, and when they turn green, gray, brown, hazel or some other color, it is not an accident, but indicates an inherited or acquired toxic condition...
...Scarcely more than a dozen of the 446,726,752 subjects of George V knew until last week that during His Majesty's illness he has raved in delirium, suffered from a dry, cracked tongue, and turned a livid, bluish color-temporarily...
...short, a clinical picture resembling that of a case of severe typhoid fever in the third and fourth weeks-but with the added anxiety of attacks of dyspnoea [labored breathing due to ineffective action of the heart] and cyanosis [a disordered condition of the circulation, causing a livid, bluish color in the skin], due to strain on the heart...