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...idled and idylled away that week of pure companionship in that dear hospital room. . . . Let other lovers praise the rose and the violet. The perfume which penetrates to my heart is that of a hospital corridor, and to the day I die I shall sniffle a bit whenever I sniff iodoform...
Tics, or habitual spasms of certain muscles, are another nervous derangement of childhood. The child may shake his head, nod, frown, scowl, blink, grimace, twist his mouth, sniff, hack, swallow, cough, sigh, hiccough, wiggle his ears, jerk his limbs, scratch himself. Tiqueurs are seldom less than six years old. They usually also suffer from personality disorders?restless-ness, self-consciousness, over-ambitiousness. Curing a child of a tic, Dr. Kanner finds is a difficult task. The more a child's attention is called to his tic, the less likely the tic will disappear. Overactive children should be given quiet recreations...
Spilsbury Sniff. Never a crime of "Spilsbury calibre" was the "Rats" murder but last week Britain's real-life Sherlock Holmes, the great criminal pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury (TIME, March 4 et seq.), was called on a case exactly to his taste when the potman of a pub in South London went nosing down into a cellar disused for years. Next door to the pub is the Old Surrey Theatre, now being torn down but in Queen Victoria's day the mecca of thrill-thirsty folk who loved to see dramas of ripe, purple blood and thunder...
Author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald's title implies that the world his latest stories tell about is cockeyed, arsy-versy. A literary double-lifer, he has concentrated his serious ambition on his few novels, written his many magazine stories simply to make money. Though critics sniff at them, say they sound like thorns crackling under a pot, readers forgive him the pot for the sake of the crackling. Of this collection of 18 stories, all are reprinted from magazines...
Yapping loudly at the University of Illinois for many a month have been two self-appointed watchdogs of the public purse: O. S. Hitchner of Freeport and C. O. Ellis of Grayville. Watchdogs Hitchner & Ellis sniff out academic extravagance, then send pamphlets about it to Illinois newspapers and taxpayers. Recently they pounced upon Professor Alvin Robert Cahn of the Zoology Department, told how he spent the summer of 1932 in northern Minnesota investigating a tick which infested the moose of that region. Pamphleteers Hitchner & Ellis scornfully "estimated" that "this louse hunter" spent $12,000 of Illinois money in the interests...