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...about a fifth as fast as her Goucher pupils, uses practically all her lungs at each breath. Her continual ability to do this results, physiologists guess, from some particular modification of a section of the sub-brain (medulla oblongata) which through a part of the spinal cord in the nape of the neck causes the chest to expand (pulling the lungs open) and the diaphragm to contract (giving more room in the chest cavity...
...mongoose's protections against the fangs of serpents. Contrary to hearsay, the mongoose is not immune to snakebite except by dint of its intuitive agility. With uncanny timing it dodges thrust after thrust of the serpent, gradually exhausts its enemy, then darts in, bites the nape of the snake's neck, triumphantly hauls away the corpse...
Lillie Langtry was painted by Burne-Jones, Watts, Poynter, Millais (whose title "Jersey Lily" became her nickname). Langtry hats, shoes, gowns, coiffeur (knot at nape of neck) were standards of fashion. The Earl of Lonsdale and Sir George Chetwynd went fisticuffing for her sake in Hyde Park. Frederick Gebhardt, U. S. sportsman & socialite, built her a Manhattan mansion which still stands. Passing through a little Texas town, to which she had once been invited for the opening of a Lillie Langtry saloon, she was welcomed at the poker table, and the town was renamed Langtry...
Glorious Betsy. Costumes are all right. So is the Vitaphone when it does not lisp. But the little locks on the nape of the neck of Dolores Costello are the hearts of the lettuce of this film, wherein Betsy, belle of Baltimore, wins Jerome, young brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, away from all the princesses of Europe...
...shrewdly searching through their rheumy eyes the charitable potentialities of the stranger. At the Cathedral, too, the stranger from the U.S. will note the peculiar fashion in which the natives, who are mostly Roman Catholics, cross themselves. They make the regular gestures of the cross, then tap the nape of the neck...