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...doom brawl in his mind; ulcers corrupt his arms; his skin greys; his eyebrows, loosened, overhang his eyes like disheveled blinds; while his voice shrinks and becomes raucous, as if he contended for possession of it with an evil spirit. Little by little, as his body rots, an odor pervades it, more deathly and infinitely more revolting than that of the carnal house; the bones of his nose break off; toes, fingers, ears, drop away like dead hair. Insanity follows, terminated by death. In rare instances, the disease unaccountably vanishes, after eight years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leprosy | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...George W. (Mike) Murphy was the center of a lively little party in the Gales Ferry dining room last evening. The occasion was his coming of age (21) but as Ruth Van Phul would say, 'nobody would ever guess it. The dinner was a riot of color and the odor of condensed milk could be distinctly observed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gales Ferry "Wow", Daily Publication of Eli Crew Camp, Dedicates Itself to Grass Protection and Local Gossip | 6/12/1925 | See Source »

...advertisements for a cigar which is, in appearance, somewhat squat, in odor, somewhat acrid, has been pictured a face known to all lovers of loud music-the face of John Philip Sousa. The famed bandmaster was depicted gazing in tender contemplation at the squat object or, with a presumably acristogy inserted between his crisp military mustache and his neat professional Van dyke, enjoying a happy solace while he listened, rapt, to some exalted strain. Last week Lieut. Commander Sousa began a Supreme Court action to re cover $100,000 damages from the P. Lorillard Co., which had thus, without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Affront | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...Bailey, Medical Advisor to the University, declared, "Recovery from monoxide gas is complete, and the patient feels no ill effects for any length of time, but it is an extremely dangerous form of gas as its lack of odor makes it unnoticeable and its insidious nature works with great speed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER 60 HOURS GEER IS STILL UNCONSCIOUS | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...paused on the threshold of fame to establish scientific certainty. Came another blow. McGurk Institute, founded to cleanse a grubby name, could not risk loss of publicity. He was ordered to publish his find at once. He refused. A Frenchman found Phage, got the publicity. Arrowsmith was in bad odor at McGurk, even at McGurk, supposedly one of the three strongholds Science had in the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lie-Hunter+G3931 | 3/23/1925 | See Source »

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