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Around a 60-ft. jacaranda wood table in Itamaraty Palace, the delegates gathered to announce the compromise resolution. His face ash-grey with disappointment, chainsmoking, Sumner Welles leaned forward with his head on three fingers of his left hand. From time to time he carefully mopped his forehead with a folded handkerchief. Chile's Rossetti continually and nervously smeared his hand over his sweaty face. Argentina's Ruiz Guiñazú clasped and unclasped his hands with a prayerlike gesture, toyed with a large ring on the third finger of his left hand...
Pucelage. At 22 Bowditch first went to sea. Later on he used to say that he never wanted to. He was a strange looking sailor-small (about 5 ft. 4 in.) with a high forehead and already grey hair. He was also "invincibly cheerful." His knowledge of mathematics got him on shipboard "through the cabin window" instead of the usual way, "through the hawsehole"-i.e., he began as a ship's clerk instead of a common sailor...
Bony Caverns. The nasal sinuses are four pairs of hollow cavities in the bones of the lower forehead, the cheekbones, and the bones that lie behind the bridge of the nose. These bony caverns are called the frontal, maxillary or antrum, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses. They open into each half of the nasal cavity, like rooms off a corridor. Each sinus is lined with delicate membranes, which are furred with tiny hairs (cilia) and covered with sheets of warm mucus...
...Some like compresses cold, some like them hot. Dr. Grove prefers infra-red lamps, electric pads or hot-water bottles applied to forehead or cheeks. Inhalation of medicated steam, especially if it contains benzoin, is valuable...
...Cannet, France. In 1893, entranced by Maeterlinck's poetic mysticism, which she discovered after a chance reading of his essay on Emerson, she tore up her contract with the Opera Comique, left Paris for Brussels "to become the wife of the great Maeterlinck." Wearing on her forehead a blue diamond which she said was a symbol of happiness, Mme. Leblanc met Maeterlinck at a supper party, lived with him for more than 20 years, and maintained a brilliant salon in Paris frequented by Anatole France, Debussy, Rodin, Mallarme, many another famed artist. She came...