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...Pittsburgh, Mrs. Celia Freedel's 7-month-old pup bit Mrs. Freedel and her daughter Miss Anna Freedel; also their neighbors, Mrs. Rebecca Labowitz and Mr. Charles Rice. That made Mrs. Freedel think the young dog was sick. So she took it to the Animal Rescue League, whose veterinarians diagnosed the ailment as dumb rabies, the variety in which the sick beast remains quiet and sullen until an overcurious human pokes at it. This dog died; the four rabies victims are receiving Pasteur treatment, and Pittsburgh has a "mad dog" scare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dogs | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...Chesterton)-McBride ($2.50). When the grey little man in the taxi ejaculated "Petrel" and hastily explained he was talking to himself, the cabbie smiled sympathetically. But the clerk at the Hotel Splendide knew better. He completed the name most deferentially-John K. Petre-without being told. And Mrs. Celia Cyril (whoever she was) seemed enchanted with John K. Petre (whoever he was). The two ex-chancellors agreed, the Old Cabinet Minister hemmed affably. So the little grey man guessed he was John K. Petre without doubt, evidently a U. S. millionaire and a devil of a fellow for secrecy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Barbed Nonsense | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

Mesdames Flora Mann, Nallie Carson, and Lillian Berger, and Messrs. Norman Stone, Norman Notley, and Cuthbert Kelly comprise the personnel of the company. Among the more familiar numbers which they will sing are "Ispy Celia" and "Now is the month of maying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH SINGERS WILL GIVE UNIQUE CONCERT IN SANDERS | 10/31/1925 | See Source »

...fairly quick to imitate. Byron Cutcheon's "Requiem for the Poet" contains three good lines among a number of bad ones. "April Fool!" by Stuart Ayers is the best contribution in verse, disposing the manners of the day in four effective quatrains printed zigzag down the page. "My Pleasant Celia" is agreeable and neatly versified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATEST ADVOCATE ABOVE AVERAGE OF CAPABILITY | 5/12/1925 | See Source »

Among the American authors whose manuscripts are on exhibition are Hawthorne, Emerson, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, Mrs. Stowe, Mrs. Celia Thaxter, E. R. Sill, Bayard Taylor, and Alan Seeger. These are in addition to other authors' manuscripts permanently on exhibition in the Treasure Room in the drawers of the central case. In the cases in the Widener Room are shown other manuscripts of Burns, Lamb, Scott, Stevenson, Swinburne, Thoreau, and Waitier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANUSCRIPTS SHOWN IN WIDENER | 11/26/1924 | See Source »

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