Word: elixirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world's first translation of Friar Roger's 800-page Opus maius, prodigious cryptogram in monkish dog-Latin that men had thought might contain marvelous secrets.* Particularly was a skeptical world interested in knowing whether, by any rare chance, Friar Roger had actually possessed an "elixir of life." Alas, the Opus mains revealed he had not. He had only, in his scholarly way, described one. The formula was enough to discourage the most boldfaced charlatan that ever sold canal water for a cureall. Elixir of life contains: "That which is tempered in the fourth degree . . . gold "That which...
...CANNOT DIE- Thames Williamson-Small Maynard ($2.50). Strange and wonderful people appear in this strange and wonderful book. Richard Bacon, debonair and demoniac son of Alchemist Roger Bacon, visits Philadelphia about 1830. He is 567 years old. There he injects Arthur Pentland, young Pittsburgh snob, with the elixir of life.* Soon after, he breaks his neck, being no longer useful to Author Williamson Arthur Pentland, who as a child suffered from night fears and grew up to love only his mother (now dead), soon marries a girl that reminds him of his mother. Being ageless, however, he outlives...
...national letters is analogous to what Princeton feels. The Henry van Dykes, ever revered, belong to an age gone by. The Scott Fitzgeralds, ever provocative, may belong to an age to come. The Tarkingtons, craftsmen and satirists whose conscience and good manners are not disturbed by the heady elixir of "modernism," belong certainly to the present and may be depended...
...called his find "menformon." The effect upon female laboratory animals: restored typical mating reactions in spayed (sterilized) specimens; enlarged organs; sped up physiological reactions. Administered to males, it did not affect physiological reactions but shrank organs, this effect continuing for months after injections were stopped. Significance: a potential potency elixir...
Throughout the week material was found for many a jest in the reported similarity between D' Annunzio's "elixir" and Danish cherry brandy, a most powerful intoxicant...