Word: veined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swerved along the crowded track. Derby hats, caps, fedoras and sombreros rolled by. Slick city men talked loudly. Rough desert men looked grim. The Bad Lands that the Indians call Malapai woke up as they had not awakened since Jim Butler's mule kicked open the silver vein that made Tonopah in 1900. They rattled and rumbled for 40 miles, to Weepah, a treeless place on the "bench" (foothill plateau) of the Silver Peak range...
...convict with Love in his heart. He tarries awhile in this hovel of Muscovite anguish to bring light into the souls of the people, and by token of a dusted window, into the room, the main scene of sorrow. Apparently, this constitutes a symbol. It is in the same vein as the Servant in the House* and, no doubt, carries a great message, which fails to compensate for dramatic poverty...
...mysterious drugs. Rather he is a Jekyll-Hyde, a suave seducer and experimenter with the mortal coil. His undoing is his better self. The theme of a bad man unable to achieve the aloof, unswerving wickedness of a fiend, is deftly handled with occasional bits in quite the Stevensonian vein. Naturally it is the very modern heroine who undoes the doctor by giving herself to him when he had expected to seduce her formally. She, so to speak, ravishes from him the long nurtured orchid of his wickedness. The grim dénouement, though revealed at the inception...
...England, Dr. R. Cruchet experimented. From the veins, of a horse he drained off blood, which he diluted with serum and at once injected into the vein of an anemic patient. He did the same with the blood of an ox and the blood of a sheep. Horse's blood he found was tolerated best by his anemic patients...
Ludwig indeed has laid himself open to comparison with the French author, who with others of various nationalities, was commissioned to write in the vein peculiar to himself and to his nationality a book about "the Elephant." His book appeared as "L'Elephant etc sec3 Amours." Certainly Napoleon's amours form as prominent a feature of Ludwig's biography as any other detail of his private or his public life, though not so prominent as to necessitate a modification of the title in the French manner. But an author is subject to grave charges when he deliberately proportions his treatment...