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...last week knew the formula for manufacturing the vaccine, which doctors have demanded since Henry Spahlinger first crossed medical tempers. But those in the know were reticent in admitting their knowledge. For detailed information it was better to write directly to Mr. Spahlinger at his Institut Bacterio-therapique in Geneva, Switzerland, or to the proud English folk who attended the extraordinary ceremony of revelation...
...after St. Nicholas Thaumaturgis. Few contest the aptness of the title. Dynamic, downright in his utter "rightness," often sententious and rhetorical in public and private utterances, Dr. Butler serves the U. S. as an unofficial ambassador-at-large. He is at home anywhere. He is a member of the Institut de France, was the first unofficial foreign visitor ever to be received by the French Academy. He has advised the British Cabinet, lectured the Reichstag in German...
...first rank, but though he painted nudes, landscapes, Cheapside costers, his lithographer's pencil has always been reserved for the faces of the great and near-great. For a Briton to be the subject of a Rothenstein portrait or a Beerbohm caricature is like membership in the Institut de France to a Frenchman. In 1899 he married Alice Knewstub, a beautiful young lady who played leads opposite Sir Herbert Tree...
...highly distinguished representative of the present generation of a famous family. He is professor of Civil and International Law at the University of Hamburg and an important participant in the work of the Dawes and Young Committees under the Reparation Commission. He is founder and director of the Institut fur Auswartige Politik at Hamburg. From 1925 to 1928, he served on the Arbitral Tribunal at the Hague...
...along comes Dr. Axel Munthe, with his equally estimable book The Story of San Michcle and tells us, on p. 67, of the "terrible episode of the six Russian peasants bitten by a pack of mad wolves and sent to the Institut Pasteur." Dr. Munthe continues with his sorry tale of how these six moujiks all became "raving mad" and the "doomed men" were "helped to a painless death" and "all of the newspapers were full of the most ghastly descriptions of the death of the Russian moujiks...