Word: marius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pain-contorted Brooklyn man was a patient of Anesthetist Marius Bohdan Greene. Taking him into an aseptic operating room, he gently rolled the patient on his side, rolled up the bed shirt, injected into the spine a mixture of alcohol chloroform, acetone and cobra venom. The tortured man unbent. Faint color flooded his face. He opened his eyes...
BLACK AND BEAUTIFUL-Marius Fortie -Bobbs-Merrill...
Russell G. Claflin '37, of Newton; William P. Haskell '37, of Scarsdale, New York; Frederic P. Hubert '36, of Cambridge; Marius E. Johnston, Jr. 1G.B., of Lexington; George B. Lauriat, '37, of Brookline; William W. Prout '36, of Chestnut Hill; Theodore H. Sheafe '36, of Rye, New York; Russell Grinnell, Jr. '37, of Providence, Rhode Island...
...Meantime Marius' household pursues its usual temperamental tenor. The five disciples hate each other, scribble notes for their forthcoming biographies (they all know Marius is dying), try to maneuver the sick man into tête-à-tête walks. Lewis, "deeply insincere," has more than one earmark of J. Middleton Murry, one of Lawrence's biographers. Others are Robert, a timid soul; his wife Hilda, who married him because Marius suggested it but who nurses a platonic passion for the Master; Mark, a bully; Johnny, a poet who is not a gentleman and is very self...
...Marius and Andrew meet but find each other uninteresting. Saul's catalytic presence throws everyone into frenzied activity. The disciples intrigue more furiously than ever; Simon looks paler every day; Andrew sits up till all hours writing "a really sincere" play. Saul falls in love with Lilly but casts her out when he finds what she is up to. The dying Marius, in a last effort to get away from his disciples and his own failure, gets Saul to promise he will take him to Africa. Andrew, unable to write a sincere play without being dull, drowns himself...