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Soon as he could he entered a London medical school, studying there for eight years, until in 1889 he was given a diploma as a physician, surgeon and midwife. While in medical school he initiated and edited the Mermaid Series of Elizabethan dramatists and a series of books called Contemporary Science. Later he wrote poetry and literary essays. His world reputation today, however, rests almost entirely upon his calm encyclopedic surveys of the love-life of men & women, of its aberrations, and of its relation to society...
...charge of a government school in New South Wales by the time he was 19. Deciding that he needed a knowledge of biology in order to understand himself and others, he studied medicine in London, began applying a scientific attitude to literary criticism, was editor of the famed Mermaid Series that first made Elizabethan drama available to the general public. Marrying in 1891, he began the first volume of his Studies in the Psychology of Sex, which was promptly suppressed as obscene. Ellis then went into voluntary exile in Morocco, wrote Affirmations and A Study of British Genius. His wife...
...tried to run away to sea, was stopped by his father. But sea motifs have always played through his art, and fountains are his favorite and best subjects. He de signed a fountain of Tritons for McKinlock Court at the Chicago Art Institute, a jolly merman and mermaid for a Stock holm public square. He studied under Rodin, was for a time submerged by his master's style but finally broke away, developed a style of his own which experts today consider as genuinely MILLES as Michelangelo's was MICHELANGELO. He has the grave face of a Catholic...
...would-be visitors to the Memorial are afraid lest they be forced to sit through several of those typically Hollywood dance numbers in which beautiful mermaid-chorines do tricks in huge swimming pools and twist themselves into complex geometrical patterns, we wish to assure them joyfully that here at last is a musical comedy in which that form of torture has been eliminated. And we also will assure them that "The Gay Divorcee" is easily the most entertaining musical film in many months...
...Congress was not destined to go down in history that evening. Shortly after 11 P. M. Majority Leader Robinson telephoned the White House to report that the venerable gentlemen of the Senate, their tempers frayed after 14 hours continuous session, were in a parliamentary snarl as tangled as a mermaid's hair and were going home for the night...