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...When many years ago I saw him at a meeting of a board of directors . . . I saw the glow of fanatical eyes over narrow cheeks. These cheeks are now fuller, the lips somewhat heavier; yet these eyes, which now search the depths of other mysteries, can still laugh gaily or shoot lightnings of mistrust...
...return to Myra-Myra was certainly a knockout. "In her cheeks was the claret glow of buoyant youth. Indeed she was throbbing like a motor with the spirit of youth." Just think of it! Throbbing like a motor! What a girl...
...both sides of the Atlantic are working to produce " cold " light, i. e., illuminating substances with a minimum of heat. Professor E. Newton Harvey, of Princeton, and Dr. W. R. Amberson, of the Nela Research Laboratories, Cleveland, have isolated " luciferin " and " luciferase," the phosphorescent substances which produce the glow of fireflies and similar animals. They hope to manufacture them artificially in quantity...
Rembrandt's wonderful light has been revealed glowing beneath the dust of centuries, a famous panel lost for nearly 400 years. It was part of a sale at auction in Prague, and was discovered by Dr. Gustav Weil, collector, through an obscure Persian inscription and a signature almost buried in grime. The "light that never was on land or sea" was painted by Rembrandt, if by any one. His pictures glow with a peculiar mellow intensity that can hardly have existed in the actual scene before him. While the light from Rembrandt's brush falls on them, they...
...could not be scaled: came across great balls of writhing snakes in the ditches in winter: met with streams which are eternally frozen, rocks like petrified caravans of camels, horsemen and carts; and over all saw the barren mountains whose folds looked like the mantle of Setan, which the glow of the evening sun drenched with blood". This is Mongolia the Mongolia whose ancestors broke their chests against the iron lances of the Western knights: the Mongolia which has only recently been stirred again by Baron Ungern, the "Incarnated God of War": the Mongolia whose books and priests and legends...