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...abrupt, especially with slow students. But with his associates, particularly those who are interested in his field, he bubbles with enthusiasm and information. He too has a portfolio of international honors given for his studies of nerve conduction. His most delicate work has been to separate the microscopic, floss-like fibres which constitute a nerve and splice them into a highly sensitive telegraph set. Whenever such nerves carry messages to (or from) the brain by means of very weak electrical impulses, amplifying tubes in Professor Adrian's device magnify those impulses until he can record them on a phonograph...
...discovering Europe together. But Vance turned out to be unexpectedly impressionable. New people and places, if they did not upset him, influenced him too much. Soon Halo found herself neglected, left alone while Vance went off on expeditions with friends or to parties where she was not invited. When Floss Delaney, Vance's boyhood love, drifted across their scene, Vance went after her like a helpless dog. Both Halo and Vance had bad times: he left her so often and so long that finally she was afraid he had gone for good. But at last, safely back...
...ambition" said Fred Allen, one of the three leading stars in "Three's a Crowd," is to see two dwarfs having a tug-of-war with a piece of dental floss." When asked to explain this statement Mr. Allen merely shrugged and said, "you asked the question: and there is a straight and honest answer, what mere do you want...
...black, red, cream, chinchilla, silver, smoke and brown toms and tabbies. Judges pulled fur, pried open eyes, thumped sides, tabulated their conclusions. Best cat in the show: Lavender Choice of Runnymede. blue male. Best of opposite sex: Pansy 0-So-Bonne, blue-eyed white. Best novice: Saxby Silver Miss Floss. Best novice of opposite sex: Ming Quong Gam Sing Quah, Siamese male. Best two kittens: North-ledge Desperado, Azurine Allure of Silver-land...
...Frances Hammond (I think) in Snappy Stories in August, 1923. The latter was a genuinely fine piece of literature, and it is too bad that its subject matter condemned it to a magazine much looked down upon. It's title was "The Souvenir." In The Mill on the Floss George Eliot says: "I speak to those who have felt the delicious resistance of hair to shears," or words to that effect. I wonder if she, too, was a fetichist...