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...Covent Garden bawdyhouse, of a father unknown and a mother notorious as "old Madam Gwyn," a brandy-soak "that in one day could twenty quarts consume, / And bravely vaunt she durst it twice presume." (One day she durst, and the next she was fished out of a Chelsea brook; Nelly, rich and famous by then, gave her one of the flashiest funerals of the Restoration...
...that dank forest where the Orinoco is a turbulent but puny brook, numerous tributaries tumble through the Parima Mountains. By measuring the varying rates of flow of these mountain streams, Major Rísquez Iribarren's men determined what they are sure is the true path of the river. Their observations also located the source of the Orinoco at Lat. 2° 18 min. North, Long. 63° 15 min. West, a few miles to the west of where...
...whose eyes are seldom shut, has a more-than-esthetic interest in Miss Munsel. Eight years ago, listening at his radio one afternoon to the Met Auditions of the Air, he heard 17-year-old Patrice singing coloratura arpeggios in a voice as full of rills as a country brook, and lustily topping off high Fs. It was not the greatest voice he had ever heard, but coloraturas were scarce, particularly with Lily Pons, the Met's coloratura queen, making herself scarcer on wartime tours. Hurok went to see Patrice, and liked what he saw-a confident, warm-eyed...
...Indian summer may come yet, Brook added, but it will have to put in an appearance soon. Thanksgiving is the traditional deadline for Indian summers. This current prank of the elements lasted only two days, where a genuine Indian summer usually streches out over a week or more. Frosty nights are another characteristic of Indian summers...
GARDNER REA Brook Haven...