Word: braine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recent close association with the efforts of famous men had somewhat addled his brain. He did not realize that clocks do not run backwards smoothly. And so his glorious historical pageant merely peeps groggily from behind the swinging pendulum. We catch a fleeting glimpse of Arthur's nightshirt and Cyrano's nose, but they are distorted to no effect. Yet Lampy slumbers on. He snores. He wheezes. The shades of the past present themselves in a villianous, not to say poisonous, gallimafray...
...Manhattan, Professor-Critic Brander Matthews of Columbia University, aged 75, for 25 years an apostle of correct speech, was stricken dumb by thrombosis (bloodclot) on his brain...
...Philadelphia, 137 miles from Washington where Surgeon Mayo talked, one of these older men, himself a surgeon, made his comments on old age. He was Surgeon William Williams Keen, who celebrated his 90th birthday during the week. Great technician in brain surgery, he has written much on diverse medical subjects; has taught; has fought, in the War. Governments have given him their medals of gratitude, students their adulation. Of old age, he said last week: "It just happened. I have lived a happy life and am fortunate in having made many friends. I love life and I have no sure...
...room, disposed ourselves variously and engaged the ladies in what passes at such gatherings for conversation. There came, as there always comes, when celebrated authors, statesmen and clerics are present, a lull. Leaning negligently against the mantelpiece, I seized the occasion to muse audibly, 'I have a superior brain, but'-and I pointed dramatically to a corner of the room-'there sits the greatest living writer in England.' The man I designated was the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, Dean of St. Paul...
...symbol of the hideous immorality that easily hides beneath "respectability," is familiar to Broadway. Last year it was done, and the year before and. . . . The plot is taken up with the attempt to build an orphan asylum in honor of Chamberlain Alving, deceased, the while his son's brain softens from inherited syphilis. As a play it is remarkable less for its profundity than for the technical mastery with which it swells through a gorgeous crescendo to a thunderclap climax. Interpretation of the Mrs. Alving's role by Minnie Maddern Fiske, 61, is different. What is usually...