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Drumming her inch long, scarlet fingernails on the surface of her dressing table, Lupe smiled as she thought of her husband, Johnny "Tarzan" Weissmuller, "who is way out in Hollywood, but I lof heem very much just the same...
Even so, California last week had a great collection of other woes. Epidemic throughout the State were mild types of influenza and measles. Scarlet fever was increasing slightly. Epidemics of mumps, chicken pox and whooping cough reached their peaks last month, were last week on the decline. Gonorrhea has taken a great leap in California, half the new cases occurring in Los Angeles...
...King. Proclaiming is accomplished by the numerous Kings of Arms, the Heralds and the Pursuivants, appointments to these coveted offices being under control of the Duke of Norfolk. Last week precisely at 10 a. m. in colorful and resplendent uniforms, there stepped out upon the ivy-clad and scarlet-draped main balcony of St. James's Palace the young Duke as Earl Marshal, the Garter King of Arms, the Norroy King of Arms and the Clarenceux King of Arms; the four Pursuivants, namely Bluemantle, Portcullis, Rouge Croix and Rouge Dragon; the Herald of York, the Herald of Windsor...
...eloquent prose that Santayana has written. Yet critics are likely to disagree for a long time to come over the question of whether The Last Puritan deserves to be reckoned with great U. S. fiction, whether it should even be considered a novel at all. Challenging comparison with The Scarlet Letter in its theme, it is obviously pale, frail, overintellectualized beside Hawthorne's masterpiece. Evil for Hawthorne's puritans was intense, powerful, a demon to be fought. For Santayana's characters it is distant, abstract, a moral problem to be solved like geometry. Thus the characters...
...meeting of sanitarians Dr. Alfred Potter, Brooklyn syphilologist, estimated 10,000,000 U. S. cases of syphilis, active and arrested. Cried he: "In the area of the U. S. in which syphilis has been reportable since 1920 there have been reported 35,000 more cases of syphilis than of scarlet fever, 79,000 more cases than all forms of tuberculosis, 500,000 more cases than of diphtheria and five times as many cases as typhoid fever...