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...stage Phil Spitainy leads an orchestra of "glorious girls," whose number seems to hover between forty-eight and sixty, according to various advertisements. Be they all glorious or not, and whatever their number, they can make a powerful lot of noise, particularly in the trumpet section. However, some of the arrangements are excellent, as is the harmonizing vocalization. This department would like to recommend to your careful consideration a soloist with a flower in her hair and a nice set of pipes (not the music-goes-round-and-round vocalist, who, incidentally, is not bad at her stunt...
...horror . . . frightening now only to listeners of ghost stories or children whistling past cemeteries." Its influence was tremendous. When the bubonic scourge swept Europe in 1373 wakes for the dead assumed an insane gaiety. While germs raged, one male dancer would feign death and a bevy of girls would hover around him, attempting to kiss him back to life. Such aberrations were widely spread. A band of German children danced hectically from Erfurt to Arnstadt (12 mi.), many of them dying on the way, the rest living on, completely shattered mentally. Another troupe danced on a bridge at Marburg, until...
...medical school when the graduate doctor is fulfilling his interneship requirements. In most of the 697 good U. S. hospitals, the interne gets an opportunity to ride the ambulance to emergency cases, to practice medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and x-ray technique on ward and clinic cases. Experienced practitioners hover over him all the time, show him how to do this & that. In time he may get opportunity to suture the peritoneum after the appendectomist or the laparotomist gets through his work. But real experience in surgery is usually reserved for the man who intends to spend another year...
...larger division, the workers pity the butterflies, social, sporting or arty, and gape at the way they spend their time, while the butterflies hover contemptuously round the drone workers, and wonder what fun they...
...Your Foot Is Pretty, Show It. He toured for a time as cornetist in Pat Gilmore's Band. Then, when middleaged, his Yankee blood asserted itself and he turned to banking. But with all his fine clothes and his fashionable mustachios, he continued to hobnob with musicians, hover around publishing offices. On one such occasion he encountered Stephen Foster who whistled the melody of Old Folks at Home ("Suwannee River") while Bishop set down the notes and scored the simple harmony...