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...people of artistic and literary interests, pausing in Cambridge. The last guests to oblige with readings at Spring teas were Robert Frost and John Crowe Ransom. It is not even difficult to remember back to mid-winter when she felt very comfortable in the same room with Miss Gertrude Stein, and was vastly entertained...
...Queen Victoria, theosophist who made her own shoes and who predicted the World War and the Russian Revolution. They entertained Duse, who appeared with a genius in tow, a grim, self-assured, masculine-appearing girl who immediately began chasing her hostess all over the house and garden. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas appeared, as well as Gordon Craig and a host of others less eminent but no less vital, most of them distinguished by a love of art and sultry, frustrated passion...
...pure animal rage. Heavy cavalry sabres at dawn were wanted by Count Balint Szechenyi, kinsman of Hungary's Minister at London, Count Laszlo Szechenyi who is husband to Gladys Vanderbilt. Count Balint Szechenyi had heard something his wife's first husband, a Jewish businessman named Victor Stein, had said about her. Victor Stein was mad too. On the field of honor the two hurled themselves at one another three times. Stein severely battered the Count's head. The Count sliced Stein's nose through, nearly taking it off. Cursing, weeping and gushing blood, the two went...
Some 350 doctors will report on significant medical studies which they accomplished during the past year-from Philadelphia's Louis Manuel Lieberman & Simon Stein Leopold's "Further Data on Artificial Pneumothorax in Experimental Lobar Pneumonia" to Philadelphia's Charles Harrison Frazier's "The Modern Treatment of Surgical Shock." These papers will keep the A. M. A.'s Journal in ample copy for six months or more...
Reprehensible as the sales methods of munitions-makers may be in many instances, they do not cause wars. Gertrude Stein (of all persons) in the most intelligent-and intelligible-words of hers that I have seen, injected some common sense into this discussion recently when she said, "Men fight because they want to fight." Selling revolvers, pitchforks or store teeth to farmers with a line fence row does not make the gunsmith, hardware dealer or town dentist the cause of the ensuing bloodshed and mayhem...