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...Esthetically a childless woman loses all floridity," added the Dictator. "The skin loses all its color, the tired look in the eye; marks the lack of internal light Contrarily with the women who are entirely women! you see them radiant, full of that beauty which reflects a love that satisfies...
...representative the royal salute. It crashed and thundered as Royal Canadian Dragoons saluted in Dr. Bruce by a legal fiction "the person of the King." Admirers of "Mitch" had expected him to bar the Lieutenant Governor from Ontario's Throne. Instead dignified old Dr. Bruce, with radiant young Mrs. Bruce on his arm (see cut), entered the Legislature not only unmolested but followed at a respectful distance by spat-wearing "Mitch" with his New-Dealing smile. Then began the traditional mummery which the New Deal Premier had explicitly sworn...
...that Einstein laid down his famed equation for interconversion of mass and energy: E = MC², where E is energy, M mass, C the velocity of light. Since then experimental physicists have converted matter into radiation and radiation into matter. In 1919 the fact that radiant energy responds to gravitation as matter does was demonstrated by the bending of starlight on passing around the sun. And, according to the theory, not only radiant energy but energy of motion had mass. Thus a steamship or cannon ball weighed infinitesimally more when moving than at rest...
...strained as she ran the gamut of shy girlishness in the opening scenes, mischievous eroticism on the star lit balcony, near-delirium when about to take Friar Laurence's potion. Newspaper reviewers sent up a praiseful paean to the adjectival accompaniment of: "Lovely! Exquisite! Extraordinary! Marvelous! Thrilling! Exciting! Radiant! True magnificence! Superlative!" Burns Mantle of the Daily News: "The potion scene, I venture, has never been as tellingly read as Miss Cornell gave it last night, simply, without affected hysteria, or hair-tearing.'' Brooks Atkinson of the Times: "This is an occasion. All a reviewer...
...Chicago, beauteous Patricia Marquam, winner of the title "Queen of A Century of Progress," appeared in court to file suit for divorce. Said she: "It was my smile, my face, my figure-he said it was my radiant beauty-that first attracted Lauren Marquam. We were married last March 12. But the things that attracted Lauren attracted others too. The attentions I got made him impossibly jealous. Four days after we were married he was so jealous that he struck me. April 15 he hit me again and I left him. Think how jealous he would be now when...