Word: phials
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Quietly triumphant, Sir John Simon remarked to friends that once again he had, without throat discomfort, got through a long speech thanks to the mysterious ''elixir'' which Lady Simon always mixes up beforehand. Orator Sir John takes nips of this from a phial, and the potent elixir is gradually diluted as he sips water, about one glass every half hour...
...untangle his involved deceptions. A jury found him guilty, a judge sentenced him to seven years imprisonment. Sharp-eyed Counsel Isaacs saw Wright's hand go to his mouth. He sprang forward, but it was too late. Wright lay dead on the floor, his hand clutching an empty phial of cyanide...
...cigar named for him; in Philadelphia, where a musician in the audience once accused him of playing on a trick trumpet, enraging him so that he smashed it, sent out for a new one before he would go on with the show; in Manhattan where he once took a phial from his vestpocket, drank the contents (said to be dope) with a swaggering toast to the crowd...
...Naples. In a small phial in a Catholic chapel in Naples abides a red substance which all the faithful recognize as the congealed blood of St. Januarius. Twice a year the clotted mass dissolves-usually in May and September. Last week Crown Prince Humbert appeared in Naples for a day. The blood dissolved. Newspapers printed extras. The populace saw heavenly favor for the Prince...
...ingenious knicknacks for Giulio de' Medici (Pope Clement VII). These smiths have tinted lightly the petals of this Rose with pink, the leaves with green, so that the spray glistens with a heart-stopping iridescence of varied movement and light. To aid verisimilitude the spray contains a secret phial which the Pope himself filled with balsam and essence of musk before handing it to Monsignor Ferdinand de Croji, whom he charged to deliver it to Queen Elizabeth as a testimonial of his esteem. The Rose, for the benefit of the calculating, weighs 1.100 kilograms (2b.). The base bears the inscription...