Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everyone knows the hideous aspects of erysipelas. From a tiny red blotch at the nose or on the cheek near an eye, an angry red spreads out into a wide, fiery stain. The skin tingles. It burns. When the stain reaches the spongy cheek or lip tissues, these swell into a horrible, puffy, burning mass. Sometimes the disease works into the scalp and down the neck. The toxins are filtering through the lymphatic fluids. The patient is feverish and drowsy. Heretofore the only cure has been to let the disease run its course, to ease the pain by hot fomentations...
...Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) was the most celebrated follower of St. Francis d'Assisi (1182-1226), whose seventh centenary will have world-wide celebration this year. St. Anthony is patron saint of Padua and of Portugal, the places respectively of his teachings and death and of his birth. His eloquence was so great that fishes were reported to jump out of the water to hear him. Devout clients appeal to him for the finding of lost articles. Miraculously he could cure erysipelas...
...Laplanders keep reindeer for milk: roving Tartars mares; Bedouins camels; pastoral tribes sheep; mountain tribes goats; tropical ones buffaloes. Asses' milk is highly esteemed far and wide. Each type of milk has its peculiar flavor, sometimes nauseating to the uninitiated. In the wild state, these animals, and the cow also, cease their milk flow after weaning their young. Farmers know that a calf weaned late is unusually frisky...
...play is long and slow. The first act alone takes an hour and five minutes, and about a third of this time is ineffective introduction. Likewise in the last act there are several wide open spaces; but by that time they are not so noticeable...
...actors, since the cast of "Brown at Harvard" is unusually large. E. W. Gross '27 and Edward Baur '27 explained the work in the business and stage departments. Publicity work in the former, which includes writing articles for newspapers and interviewing people prominent in the dramatic world, offers a wide scope for the ingenuity of candidates. The costuming and properties divisions of the stage department will be of particular interest in connection with this play because of the importance that the details of property and costume will have in creating the necessary atmosphere. A general meeting for business and stage...