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...thirteenth century announced to his rather hostile contempories that all that was necessary to outlive one's friends was a draught of essence of reindeer. Spaniards in the sixteenth century tramped their way to fever and death in the swamps to Florida all for a few bubbles in the fountain of youth. Ladies of the present with a more practical turn of mind submit to the beautifying tortures of the face litter. But as Mr.--Wells points out science threatens to make us stay young whether we like it or not. Baccilll and thyroids are the shibboleths...
...elevated appeal. Characters took on more reality and the passions and sorrows of every day life were portrayed with more vividness and directness. Practically speaking. Euripides became the founder of the romantic drama and it is interesting in view of this to note that A. W. Schlegel, the very fountain head of the great German romantic movement would scarcely admit that his dramas were tolerable...
...private rooms while 30% of the patients want such private beds. Of these the new institution, Doctors' Hospital, will have plenty, together with hotel accommodations for convalescents and for relatives who might wish to live near the patients. Its entrepreneurs include Dr. Alexander Lambert, chairman; Guion H. Fountain (formerly of the National City Bank), president...
Several characters from Constantinople fell in the drinking fountain and had a Turkish bath. Wild west characters with guns and spurs rode the floor to perfection, not pulling leather either...
...Molpe" says Professor Gilbert Murray, "is the fountain-head of poetry in the European world." This ancient form of nature-worship, long antidating in Greece the period known as the Heroic Age, and combining in its expression in singing and dancing the worship of the aesthetic as well as that of the material, is so to speak, the primitive poetry of all European people at least, and as such underlies their later literature...