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...Harvard, Frankfurter thoroughly enjoyed himself as one of the brighter apostles of Wilson's "New Freedom." With a group of cronies he lived, entertained and talked in a house on 19th Street. This establishment, which humorous old Oliver Wendell Holmes called The House of Truth, was the precursor of the "little Red House on R Street" which several of Mr. Frankfurter's protégés, including Ben Cohen and Tom Corcoran, made famous...
...greatest popularity with such smart comedies as Holiday and Paris Bound. But he is most warmly admired by the elect for an ironic fantasy, White Wings. And he has most thoroughly puzzled and stimulated theatre-goers with his mystical play, Hotel Universe, in its intentions something of a precursor to Here Come the Clowns. Two contradictory kinds of talent are apt to keep Barry from ever becoming a cut-to-measure playwright : on the one hand, a keen eye for manners, a suave wit, a gift for fresh, pointed dialogue; on the other, a restless imagination, great moral heat...
John La Farge, whose Paradise Valley, Newport, painted in 1866-68, was a notable precursor of Impressionism in its analysis of sunlight...
...Belgian named George Nagelmackers visited the U. S. in the 1860's, purchased the patent of the Mann Railway Sleeping Car Carriage, precursor of Puliman. In Brussels he founded what is now La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Europeens (The International Company of Sleeping Cars and of Great European Expresses). This firm, called Wagons-Lits for short, not only supplies individual dining and sleeping cars to European railways, much as Pullman does to U. S. railways, but also makes up entire trains (except the locomotives), and arranges with a score of governments to run them...
...Years of dental history were sketched colorfully by Yale's Physiologist Howard Wilcox Haggard, able popularizer. The first dentists were mountebanks who probably snatched purses on the side. All they knew was how to pull teeth, open gumboils. For extractions they used a fearsome instrument called "the pelican," precursor of the Stillson wrench. It always got the offending tooth usually accompanied by one on each side and one above. To keep teeth healthy the 16th Century dentist advised eating a mouse once a month, fumigating the mouth with smoke from onion seeds...