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LIKE Aristotle, Galen, Hippocrates, and the other great pagans who enjoyed, for whatever reason, a mediaeval reputation, Virgil was vulgared into a necromancer. Although to the learned few he was "poeta doctus," and was through the Fourth Eclogue the cherished prophet of the churchmen, the common legends centered about magic of a more obvious kind, and in them Virgil made glass talismans to confound the flies of Naples...
...love and its attendant foibles Poet Gogarty's lighter vein is apt: Only the Lion and the Cock, As Galen says, withstand Love's shock. So, Dearest, do not think me rude If I yield now to lassitude, But sympathise with me. I know You would not have me roar, or crow. When he can manage to subdue his wit something simpler and better emerges: I gaze and gaze when I behold The meadows springing green and gold. I gaze until my mind is naught But wonderful and wordless thought! Till, suddenly, surpassing wit, Spontaneous meadows spring...
...Edward Hale Lane, Mrs. Charles G. Mixter, Mrs. John Montague, Mrs. Arthur W. Moors, Mrs. Andre Morize, Mrs. Theresa R. Osgood, Mrs. Thomas N. Perkins, Mrs. J. Winthrop Platner, Mrs. C. Kingsley Porter, Mrs. Edward Read, Mrs. Clyde O. Ruggles, Mrs. Thomas Russell, Mrs. James E. Spike, Mrs. Galen L. Stone, Mrs. W. W. Vaughan, Mrs. Timothy Walsh, Mrs. Henry B. Washburn, Mrs. Alexander Whiteside, Mrs. Alfred Worcester...
Montana. Dry Democratic Senator Thomas James Walsh was running for reelection on campaign cash supplied by John Jacob Raskob as Democratic chairman. Wet Republican Nominee Albert John Galen was opposing him on campaign cash supplied by John Jacob Raskob as chief contributor to the Association Against the 18th Amendment...
...delight for homeloving sybarites, the book is dedicated to "that large group of citizens who have always cherished a glass of sound wine as a vitally important part of their dinner." Testimonials to the cup that cheers but does not inebriate have been culled from Thackeray, Athaeneus, Pliny, Aristotle, Galen, Plutarch. "On the other hand, we cannot be too emphatic in declaring that we are not interested in promoting the happiness of that wretched group whose only criterion of excellence in wine is the violence of its 'kick.' Let them ride white mule to maudlin joys. We have...