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...then these things have come to pass again. Playwright Andreyev has Victor Seastrom to thank for directing, Lon Chancy for acting, a highly authentic recreation. "He," one recalls, is a much-slapped circus clown, beloved by the world only for a buffoonery which he wrings from the shattered, poignant remnant of a life known to none but himself...
...days, embezzlers used to study extradition treaties with apprehension and prepare to jump to a new and unextraditable land with the remnant of their informally acquired wealth...
...thousand police assembled in the Royal Albert Hall, London, to protest against a lower wage proposal. The meeting attracted a good deal of interest because the Labor Party has been trying to get the police force unionized. Sir James Remnant, M.P., said to them: "For God's sake don't be mixed up in politics...
Since the passing of the day "when hearts were young and knights were bold," it has been the general impression that duels were no longer au fait. Happily this glorious remnant of chivalry is not yet laid to rest in France and steel once more flashes against steel for so slight a provocation as a disagreement over theatre tickets. Alas, although the spirit flames as before, the flesh lacks practice; the combat ended with a scratch on the throat. So fades the glory of a once splendid...
...made through his microscope. Nevertheless he continued his experiments for fifteen years and proved his theories so successfully by actual cures that at another meeting of the Academy he was heaped with honors. The modern physician is a descendant of Pasteur. The old untidy family advisor is more a remnant of the days when the efficacy of herbs was thought to lie in the incantations breathed over them by the "medicine man" and when exposure to the moon often brought a deathly sickness. It was the spirit of the French scientist which drove malaria out of Cuba, and which acting...