Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German surgeons who were in congress at Berlin last week, Dr. Carl H. von Noorden sent his report from his clinic at Frankfurt-am-Main. He wrote that he had succeeded in making an extract of animal pancreases. This extract he had reduced to powder then compressed into tablets. Patients whom insulin sickened could swallow his tablets. He called this extract "horment...
Young Men In Love is another tale of those extravagantly "sporting" English highbreds whose fortunes are rivaled in calibre only by their misfortunes. .(The main characters are six-three of the pre-War generation: "Serle, the politician; Townleigh, the Newspaner Magnate; Vardon, the Financier. Let us call them, merely to be dramatic 'and to please the public, the three horsemen of the Apocalypse...
...most important part of a cartoon is of course, the idea. Its presentation, while important is secondary. There are three main divisions into which cartoons are classified as to their subject-matter naturally fall. There is the political cartoon, the straight narrative cartoon, usually centered around some joke, and the cartoon which is a commentary on some point which is true to life. It is the last group that I place my work...
...built up a study skeleton of departments--editorials, book-reviews, the special article, and the rest that insures a certain variety to any issue, whatever the quality of the accidental "contributions" may be. As your reviewer galloped through the April number of the Advocate, the track, in the main, seemed to him rather trodden and the same, but there loomed up every few rods the pleasantly familiar obstacles that bade him take breath and hold had for a bracing rise...
...They are densely ignorant of our writers, but have profound respect for a Vanderbilt. Europe has copied our worst things- the ugly stupidity of our iron civilization. She is sacrificing her originality to wear clothes like an inhabitant of the gopher prairies, to make Unter den Linden look like Main Street and elect a Babbitt Mayor of the Rue de la Paix. The English language is revered over here as Latin was in the Middle Ages. . . . America must not grow too proud. After all, we are a great country, but not a great people. And everything was there to make...