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Comment. New York Herald-Tribune : "Claims for a specific nostrum . . . appear with such frequency . . . that France fears it to be another case of crying 'Wolf! Wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wolf! Wolf!? | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...sensational success of the cinema version of his The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse that "made" Rodolfo Guglielmo (stage name Rodolfo Valentino), cinema star. Some of his other novels; Blood and Sand, La Bodega, Mare Nostrum, The Shadow of the Cathedral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Temptress* | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

...legend of Linguaglossa that once before, when the image of St. Egidius was held up, the oncoming flood of lava was stommed. Faith has brought to pass many miracles, including the splitting of the Red Sea. Perhaps such a nostrum is still effective. Perhaps by climbing to the house-tops to get as close as possible to the heat and, chanting a hymn to the Sun, our land and our people may be saved from shriveling up like fried bacon. Certainly drastic steps must be taken immediately; and as long as the weather-man has proved himself a mere pawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LET US ALL JOIN--" | 6/21/1923 | See Source »

Hodie recepimus vestram epistolam Latinam de nostro anniversario. Bullyus pro vobis! Multi Bullyi Vestrum Latinum est scumptiosum. Sed nostrum, si non flatteramus nos ipsos, est plus scrumptiosum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Boom in Foreign Tongues. | 1/6/1887 | See Source »

...Nostrum flumen, sine dubia, est A unum, et porro melius quam Camus vel Isis, in antiquo mundo. Calculamus, facto, Europam est effetan; ut Bretus Hartius - auctor "Pagani Mongoliensis' - dicit, 'Caucasianus (Europiensis) exluditur." Haec est maxima et liberrima et grandiosissima Respublica que unquam existavit, et nostra Universitas potest facile flaggelare omnem creationem. Yoicks! (expresso Anglica...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Boom in Foreign Tongues. | 1/6/1887 | See Source »

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