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Upon being told by the nearest British civil servant, he exclaimed, "Indeed! Do you actually inform me that that is the inkstand of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs? I am accustomed to a silver and crystal inkstand. This appears to be of braass and glaass...
...other substances found in living tissues. Now that thousands of organic compounds have been synthesized, it is chemical custom to call "organic" any compound, however formed, that contains carbon, since carbon is a notable component of plants and animals. Lately Rockefeller Institute researchers have isolated in the form of crystals a virus which causes a plant disease called tobacco mosaic. The virus seems to consist of a protein molecule with a molecular weight of several million units. In most respects it is not alive; the crystal structure, for example, is typical of inanimate materials such as metal. But when...
...Premier of Czechoslovakia has been for many years a man whose name few European statesmen ever bother to remember, they never can get out of their minds Dr. Eduard Benes, quick as a squirrel, lucid as crystal, clever as the Devil, virtuous as the League of Nations and famed as "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...
...Baron Beaverbrook's London Daily Express by intuitive Adolf Hitler's magnetic friend Dr. Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl. The gigantic Nazi Doktor is given to moments of extreme nervous excitement which he calms by striding about his office and inhaling great whiffs from a small green crystal bottle of smelling salts. From TIME the Daily Express had picked up and reprinted the fact that Putzy in one of these nervous moments exclaimed to Manhattan Lawyer William Ormonde Thompson, onetime partner of Clarence Darrow: "Damn those Oxford professors! I will send some of our swine to burn down...
Postmaster General Farley: Jim has about the guile and predatory instinct of a big, honest, lumbering and friendly Newfoundland . . . the only "patronage" in either jobs or works which Jim is permitted to pass to the faithful is what is left after the starry-eyed socialicians, the crystal-gazing professors and the "liberal" monopolists of honesty get through passing the pie to the objects of their fondness, favor or philanthropy...