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...Ellis H. Edwards, obstetrician supped his forceps into her aural canal drew out an object. ... The laboratory reported that it was ... the skeleton of a cricket...
...Center. He slipped his forceps into her aural canal, between the outer and inner ear, drew out an object three-quarters of an inch long, stared at it in amazement. Then he sent it to the laboratory which soon reported that it was indubitably what he had suspected-the skeleton of a cricket...
...direct evidence of crime. Sarret. Schmidt & Cie. were in the habit of renting various small villas as "nursing homes." Under a boulder in the garden of Sarret's house in Marseilles, detectives found a great mass of bones-rat bones, cat bones, assorted dog bones up to the skeleton of a St. Bernard, all more or less decomposed by acid. Soon thereafter Georges Sarret rented M. Poncel's villa L'Hermitage and got into difficulties with another of his underlings, an unfrocked priest named Louis Chambon and the latter's mistress, a Mile Ballandreaux. When...
...most important of his "principles" is explained thus, "Harmonic analysis is more than a description of chords as individuals. In the broader aspects it is a process involving of the shapes, proportions and underlying skeleton of a piece of music, as well as its more superficial texture... The most important observation about a given chord does not concern its make-up as regards intervals between the notes, etc., but rather what its relation is to the rest of the music...
Poor Daniel. It may be that he was not wanted, and that the end of the tale will be disclosed with mute clarity when a skeleton in a burlap bag is washed ashore on the coast of Connecticut. But when the grim remains, whitened by wind and rain, are laid gently to rest, they will have the sympathy and respect of every true sportsman. Daniel has been a noble beast, and, like all good dogs...