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...true-blooded Irish men and women, such activity is neither funny nor characteristic???said the Irish World of New York last week. That newspaper demanded that all cinema producers and particularly the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Co. which filmed The Callahans and the Murphys cease to "hold the Irish people up to ridicule...
...long been known that the growth of hair, plumage, etc., is largely a secondary sex characteristic???i.e., that it is a sort of by-product of the activity of the sex glands. But Dr. Voronoff's claims?if, indeed, he has made them?go a great deal further than this simple scientific knowledge suggests. At the present stage of matters, these claims are a press report? no more; and it is well to keep in mind that the press's reports on scientific matters are generally about as reliable and discriminating as a plumber's reports on pharmacy...
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