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Sweeney Todd. Rich, ruddy, raucous melodrama, vintage of 1842, in two murderous acts and eight vein-chilling scenes, telling the bloody history of The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, was revived. Wendell Phillips Dodge, producer, calculated (accurately) upon obtaining the same effect as that produced by an old family tintype with the head-clamps showing...
...effect, an artificial kidney, an external laundry for the blood. The purpose of the apparatus is to extract foreign substances and mineral poisons from the circulation by tapping one of the large arteries, passing the blood through a purifier, and returning it to the heart by reinjection in a vein...
...Manhattan, an Italian's back itched. He asked his wife to scratch it. She refused. He dragged her to the kitchen, slashed her jugular vein with a bread knife, sat eating breakfast at a table when policemen arrived...
...sheltered career," he will suffer rude awakening. Nowhere is the strenuous life more demanded, or competition keener, or intellectual sinew and moral fibre more indispensable, or the spirit of consecrated devotion more searchingly tested. If the assay does not in these things show pretty much pure gold the vein will soon be worked out. There is no eight hour day in teaching; there are no flesh pots. The high importance of the calling demands high endeavor and sacrifice...
...exigencies of reform, and not as open to the dangers of specious maturity, as the purely literary endeavours of young men often are. It is surprising what a good-thinker the undergraduate can turn out to be when he tries. The Advocate needs more of his reflective vein...