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...work, stand, half-comatose, at the bar of an old-fashioned saloon; between long, refreshing pulls at their schooners they utter, effortlessly and comfortingly, their dazed views on the fall of empires and the rise of Henry Ford." He has little respect for Tycoon Ford, calls him "a typical specimen of the anti-cultural American." The Mob, says Critic Notch, is influenced by scientific discoveries, but its science is anachronistic. "The discarded scientific concepts of the last three centuries are on the grow. The scientist cannot stop them from growing because they are too easy, too plausible and too teachable...
...Glyn, ablest living fabricator of Sunday-supplement fiction, made it all up and did a job which, in spite of its puerile aspects, has possibilities as entertainment. What makes Suck Men Are Dangerous silly is not the plot, acting or direction, but the awful dialog, written by Ernest Vajda. Specimen lines...
...would thus appear to be the largest meteorite known at present. The Greenland meteor brought back by Admiral Peary, and now reposing in the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, weighs 36 1-2 tons, considerably less than the Grootfontein specimen...
...fervor of almamatermania which drove the 200 young men of Harvard to demolish a subway car is even loss desirable. We have many times discussed the merits of the green cap, the St. Pat's parade, and the big rush: but we have never had quite so insane a specimen of sophomorism at Wisconsin as Harvard's expedition into school spirit...
...good cooking. During the War she worked on the problem of food substitutes. Her study sent her to old cook books. Collecting them became a hobby. Now she has 4,000, largest collection of its kind, which she is giving to the New York Academy of Medicine. Oldest specimen is a manuscript, written about 870 A.D., of Apicius De re Coquinaria (On Cookery), which collates some of the ancient recipes the Romans considered choice. Ancient cookery differed little from modern. Roast pork and apples was a Roman, dish, also duck and turnip. The Romans had no sugar, used honey. Honey...