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...modesty ? Author Herbert George Wells will continue to be taken at his face value as one of the First Citizens of the (nonexistent) World State. Autobiographer Wells denies that he is a dual personality but admits having a persona, an idea of himself somewhat at variance with the humdrum facts. Of late his persona has been a little under the weather. To get his persona back on its feed he has written this highly Wellsian Experiment in Autobiography...
Absinthe connoisseurs contemptuously observed that the humdrum bourgeois statesmen who make up the present Cabinet were wasting their time debating anxiously such a minor factor as the alcoholic strength of a drink which gets its chief effect from wormwood (absinthium) which contains the powerful narcotic absinthin. The alcohol in absinthe acts as the carrier and catalyst of the drug in its subtle assault upon the brain. Neither wormy nor a wood, wormwood is a bitter-tasting weed fairly common in Europe and the U. S. under such local names as madderwort, mugwort, ming-wort, warmot and wermuth. Swiss farmers never...
...shall long hang heavy there. Complacent bovines were once, and perhaps still may be allowed to roam gracefully through the greensward, and unmolested give their milk for Harvard, but birds and even beasts of other colors are ruthlessly driven from the protecting shelter, not, alas, out merely into the humdrum whirl of exhaust-filled urbanity, but straightway to meet the ill-aimed shots of citified big game hunters; allowed no longer like the cows to give forth their flowing liquid...
...Invisible Man (Universal). While other Hollywood producers confine themselves to the humdrum mishaps of prostitutes, millionaires and college footballers, Carl Laemmle Jr's Universal studio specializes darkly in supernatural pasquinades. The hero of The Invisible Man is as nasty a pumpkinhead as Frankenstein's monster or The Mummy. He is a young physician named Griffin, whose love for beauteous Flora Cranley (Gloria Stuart) is not sufficient to prevent him from discovering a drug which not only makes him invisible but turns him simultaneously into a homicidal lunatic...
...receive its present broad powers until 1904. Before then it looked after higher education alone, having been founded primarily to rehabilitate King's College (now Columbia University) which had been suspended during the Revolution. New York State's University sometimes forgets its humdrum job and dons academic garb. It did so last week to celebrate, a bit ahead of time, its 150th birthday. Meeting in Chancellors' Hall in Albany in their 69th convocation, the Regents elected Vice Chancellor James Byrne, Manhattan lawyer, to succeed the late Chancellor Chester Sanders ("Boss") Lord, longtime managing editor...