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...strong Tammany man and Mr. Kresel is Tammany's vigorous opponent. In the midst of his attack upon Tammany's Magistrates, this indictment was brought against him. Promptly Mr. Kresel resigned his post as investigator of the courts-score one for Mr. Steuer and a breathing spell for Tammany which had Deen severely discomfited through the attack upon its Magistrates. Enemies of Tammany saw partially in the fact that the City Government had acted so emphatically against the Bank of United States in comparison to its attitude in the failure of City Trust Co. two years...
After the other aspects of Du Chaillu's discoveries are forgotten and the spell of his personality has lifted, scientist may remember him as the first observer of the gorilla in modern times. In the eighteen fifties people were terrified but fascinated by what he told of the great apes. Unfortunately, some of the fabulous native stories of the gorillas were mis-construed as his own, among them tales of the beasts abduoting native women. This distrust has even lingered in the minds of present-day writers. It is interesting that, as a Harvard zoologist, who has specialized...
...glands. Victims of Addison's disease (men are more often afflicted than women) are almost always between 20 and 40. They feel weak all over; their stomachs are irritable; their blood pressure is low; and, most notably, their skin deepens in color. They usually die during a fainting spell. The notable pigmentation is deceptive. Many another condition causes similar discoloring: pregnancy, constipation, cancer, chronic stomach ulcers, abdominal growths, pernicious anemia. Affection, most often tuberculosis, of the suprarenal glands, is the cause of Addison's disease. The glands are two small bodies, shaped like cocked hats and one perched...
...Leslie Banks) who has squandered a good deal more money than he should have, gone about with low companions, and as a final piece of folly undertaken to sell an automobile on which he still owed payment. This commercial venture lands the young man in the workhouse for a spell and when he comes home, in Act I, instead of being invited to share the fatted calf, he is offered a small sum of money if he will forever absent himself from England...
...boxholders which included names like Curtis, Biddle, Lorimer and Pianist Josef Hofmann. Aïda was the first opera with Italian Tenor Aroldo Lindi, Soprano Anne Roselle, Contralto Cyrena Van Gordon, Conductor Emil Mlynarski. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame followed last week with Mary Garden again casting her curious spell as the pale, questioning little juggler, Baritone Chief Caupolican (a South American Indian) as the kindly, understanding monk, able Eugene Goossens conducting. Both performances were consistently excellent. Minor parts were capably taken, the orchestra played smoothly, sets were effective, the lighting pleased. These essentials to good opera were in large...