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...skin or the vapors inhaled. Alchemists discovered this as they did most other facts known about this keystone of their hermetic arts. One compound of mercury (calomel, mercurous chloride) is a useful purge. Another compound (mercuric bichloride) is a corrosive poison (TIME, March 7). Quicksilver helped Joseph Priestley discover oxygen (1/74) and thus start Antoine Laurent Lavoisier on modern chemistry. It dissolves most metals (iron and platinum are among the few exceptions). Besides its familiar uses- gold and silver amalgams to fill teeth; filling for thermometers and ultraviolet ray lamps-it goes into explosives and drugs. Recently it has been...
...Americans are literary snobs," said burly British Novelist John Boynton (Angel Pavement) Priestley, landing in Manhattan last week. "I am here to speak or lecture at a place called Buffalo, prominent for its bootleggers. Then I will speak at Toledo, a place full of crooks chased out of Chicago. Third, I will lecture at Urbana, Ill., a place I couldn't find on my $12 atlas...
...expect she'll be lousier than she is swell. You spoil your women. We spoil our men. They can stand it better. Women turn out best in adversity. It may be hard on their youth and beauty, but it's good for their character. . . . [Novelist Priestley has begotten one daughter...
...Priestley's broadside, illogical and uninformed as it is, serves American snobbery jolly well right. Year after year we submit to the patronage of a procession of such visitors, turn the other cheek, and apparently yearn for a third, that we might also turn it. "If it takes whole lecture shiploads of Mr. Priestleys to make the long lethargic American worm turn, then I am for whole lecture shiploads of visiting patronizers seeking American patronage." Charles Dickens was among the first British novelists to profit from cracking America across the face;† and, as Mr. Priestley said last week...
...Novelist Priestley, after reading Miss Hurst's critique, after consulting his friend Manhattan Critic Henry Seidel Canby, beat a retreat on the ground that he had been joking, stated: "I am one of those strange Englishmen who really have a sense of humor...