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...Libman's first point was that angina pectoris does not always indicate actual heart disease. A diaphragm pushed up by a distended stomach may cause the pain. A poorly functioning gall bladder or colon may cause it. So may disturbed ovaries. One of the subtlest causes is focal infection, which may lower the resistance of the heart or sensitize it to pain...
...legend of Faust is brought up to date and dramatized in Marquisian manner. Sample: "Faust: Is not a Good Woman one of the noblest works of God? Mephisto: It is more terrible than that, even: God is one of the subtlest inventions of the Good Woman...
...sort. It would be of most service to those taking it in hope of arriving at a critical formulation of their own, if its closest inquiry were into contemporary theories and problems. The success of this course naturally demands a teacher of very special talent, sensitive to the subtlest implications of the works studied, widely learned, open-minded and preferably young...
...willing to make allowance for it) a little bit jaded, a trifle seared and worn. . . . But as a matter of fact it was just these younger women who failed to provide any element of surprise, whereas Murasaki was continually astounding him . . . her clothes scented with the subtlest and most delicious perfumes...
...Manhattan on his way to Europe, proposed to publish the Smith voting record the day he sailed. The New York Evening Post (Republican) anticipated him. It, too, had exhumed the record.. While awaiting Nominee Smith's reply to the subtlest, heaviest attack he had yet suffered in his greatest campaign, voters had an opportunity to scrutinize the subject-matter of the controversy. Sample items of Assemblyman Smith's record of votes (1903-15) are as follows: Liquor A vote (1904) to except hotels from the provisions of a local option bill. A vote (1905) to except...