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Labeling as undesirable the patenting by members of the faculty of discoveries or inventions bearing on matters of health and therapeutics, the Corporation has adopted certain rules which are aimed at preventing the recurrence of such episodes as the Emerson-Drinker affair of two years ago. Uncertain at that time which stand to take, the Corporation took no action, but at last it has formulated a commendable policy...
THIS book is one of the most usable of the recently published collections of drinker's recipes: in the first place, the pages and cover are waterproofed; then there is a more than adequate system of indices, including both the ordinary type of index and a cut-back page effect; the result is that anyone can locate the best drink of a given base in a minimum of time, and with a minimum of thought. One can, by employing the manual, adjust the drinks to what there is on hand in the way of liquors and mixers with uncanny accuracy...
Nick Charles had been a private detective, had gladly retired when he married a well-to-do wife. Junketing in Manhattan with his congenial spouse (like all good Hammett characters, Nick is a dogged, early-&-late drinker), he finds himself gradually dragged into an annoying mystery. Clyde Wynant, half-crazy but successful inventor, a onetime client of Nick's, has awkwardly disappeared just when his secretary-mistress has been murdered. Wynant's lawyer, Wynant's remarried ex-wife both want him found, think Nick is the man for the job. But Nick is having too good...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Like George Simon in Counsellor at Law, the hero of this picture, Ernest Barringer (Otto Kruger), is a criminal lawyer. However, if the two were arguing a case, the odds would be on Simon. Barringer has quick wits but he is a sentimentalist and a solitary drinker. These faults lead him into easily imagined predicaments. When a young girl (Irene Hervey) requests him to defend her father for killing her stepmother, Barringer glances at a photograph of the stepmother and utters a low neurotic moan. She is his onetime wife, whose portrait, for a decade...
Several books have also been written by professors here who are not Harvard graduates. Among these authors are Laurence E. Binyon. Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Raymond Leslie Buell, visiting lecturer in international Relations, and Cecil K. Drinker, professor of Philology...