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This is the result of what she refers to proudly as "my operation." Some years ago famed Dr. Serge Voronov of Paris advertised for an elderly female willing to submit to a transfer of monkey glands. Only one person in the world was adventurous enough to seek the fountain of youth under the surgeon's guidance-Mrs. King. The resultant publicity helped "make" Dr. Voronov. It delighted Mrs. King. It was like being before the public again. Whenever she walked out on the boulevards she wore a metal monkey pinned to her hat. The monkey glands seem to have...
...Fountain of the Virgin, where once the Blessed Virgin traditionally drew water and washed the swaddling clothes of the Infant Savior, several women were engaged last week in similar tasks when the earthquake came. Although part of the ledge of the holy well crumbled and fell among them none were injured...
Meanwhile in a nearby room stayed Deputy Marshall Henry Cunningham, assigned to "guard" the patient. It was rather a sinecure position-in fact, the Deputy spent much of his time strolling about Greenville, and watching the goldfish in the fountain before the hospital. There were six goldfish and the deputy (said despatches) amused themselves thinking up names for them...
...dear sun waning and Death, be cause he laughed at it, "coming to him like a raillery." Author Ryner has well conjured the situations - Cervantes in Madrid, surrounded by poverty, influential enemies and with Death for a friend in need. Cervantes in Esquivias, draining the gay fountain of his wit, writing a happy and fantastic story as if thus to postpone the conclusion of his own fantasy
...Honors. When Captain Lindbergh arrives in the U. S., he will find Barnum-scale welcomes wherever he goes-and U. S. railroad executives have offered him free transportation to any point. He will see his picture on U. S. Army recruiting billboards; his name in advertisements* for wrist watches, fountain pens, automobiles, what not. He will discover that the New York Daily News (tabloid) has distributed sepia photographs of him, "ready for framing," to its gum-chewing readers. He will see shopgirls wearing his features on their handbags, his monoplane models on their hats...