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...mildest form of the disease is a little cracking or scaling between the toes. A vegetable parasite, related to the mould that grows upon stale bread, gets deeply into the skin. Soft corns are frequently due to ringworm infection. Sometimes the mould causes blisters, scaly eruptions, wartlike growths. Blisters may break and cause a wet, oozing surface that becomes covered with scabs...
...task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From every corner they come. In the South, Clay Wingate, gentleman planter, gloated with boyish pride over boots and sabre, crisp new toys of war; but he brooded over their necessity. He knew the cause wasn't slavery, "that stale red-herring of Yankee knavery"; he knew it wasn't even states' rights. Vaguely he sensed it was a conflicting temperament, a difference in culture, North and South: A voice, a fragrance, a taste of wine, A face half-seen with candleshine, A yellow river, a blowing dust...
Dark as the inside of an empty wine cask and reeking with the same stale smells is a certain evil subterranean cafe in Warsaw. Last week Polish detectives surrounded silently, peered down and into the place expectantly. They saw M. Aaron ("Diamond Jew") Rubenstein in strange traffic with some two score creatures whose air was furtive, smugglerous...
...Perhaps I Am" is not even as good as "Twice Thirty", and one regrets to see the man who could write such biographies as "The Man From Maine" and "The Americanization of Edward Bok" descending to the trivialities of Hmericks, often stale jokes, and even at best, a disjointed mass of, for the most part, pointless anecdote...
...first real outpopping of honest, controversial opinion, at the Sixth Pan-American Conference, came last week, in Havana, as the delegates were about to adjourn their stale and stuffy sittings...