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...celebrated Christmas, birthday, anniversary, then packed their heroine off to Manhattan and glory. At her publishers' tea there Author Margaret Flint, swelling with pleased pride and a corsage of tea-roses, looked more than ever like Mrs. Jacobs of Bay St. Louis. One of her sponsors, in helpful vein, asked if she felt like a butterfly on a pin. "Rather a weighty butterfly," smiled 200-lb. Margaret Flint Jacobs. With five of her six children at home and a husband whose toll-bridge had been rendered bankrupt by Huey Long's free bridges, Author Flint...
Signs of any such rearrangement were particularly scarce in India last week, both the vernacular and English language Press fulminating in the vein of New Delhi's Statesman: "The proposals are already dead. The Negus and the whole world will not have them. Sir Samuel Hoare has done irreparable damage to the Baldwin Government and to the moral leadership of Britain." No doubt Editor Garvin thought he was seeing eye-to-eye with King George when he added in the Sunday Observer: "Further sanctions intended to throttle Italy would set fire to the world. . . . The air would rain terrors...
...bright pink retina of the eye can be photographed straight through the pupil with a Zeiss retinal camera. As reference points for classification, veins are chosen in preference to arteries because they are thicker and show up darker in photographs. The main vein which enters the eyeball with the optic nerve branches in two, and each branch again forks, providing four prominent veins meandering across the retina in irregular directions.* The entrance point of the optic nerve itself is taken as a point of reference. The distances and directions of the vein forks from this reference point provide coordinates which...
...blood, of course, actually flows down the forks toward the main vein and out of the eye-ball...
...VEIN OF IRON-Ellen Glasgow-Harcourt, Brace...