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...Insulin must be injected into a vein; glukhorment is swallowed...
...which the New York Times reported: "It can be applied to the skin and even to the tongue without burning and can be swallowed. More amazing still, it can even be injected into the blood stream, whereas few substances having any real antiseptic power can be injected into a vein without causing death." The New York Herald Tribune quoted Sir Alfred Mond: "Monsol is derived by a new process from the oils of certain coals, and not only is non-irritant but is non-poisonous...
...yellow gentian which has a very bitter taste' " and from The New Botany, "'... flowers, pushing through from some inner plane of being, and with such energy that they are visible to man. Especially the blue gentian.' " Even in the bitterest of Author Gale's stories there is a vein of iron sentimentality; even in her bravest, there is a grimly sentimental irony. Yet sentimentality is only the approximate, not the exact word to describe a humanity that prevents each of Author Gale's terse episodes from being merely a brilliant chart of the disasters and deep triumphs of people...
Clayton Hamilton, speaking in a light vein, declared that although the stage has improved technically, the general tone and standards have been lowered very perceptibly because the right people are not going to the theatre...
...Carews are a mad tribe. There is pirate blood in their veins, repeating itself with fine atavism. Hate later turns to vicious admiration when Elsa sees Bayliss theatrically sitting a new pony, making it rear, yanking it up until there is scarleted froth on its bit irons. He goes to college, to war, to the devil; returns, as he says of one of his girls- healthy, clean, pretty. And his tribe dominates the landscape, roistering, riding hard. They have always succeeded, always dominated, always failed, in a hot-blooded cycle: "The Carew men have always taken what they wanted, where...