The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut & as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.

Hobble-skirts became very popular at Hudson’s store in the 1905-1910 period, even though women who wore the stylish garments put themselves at risk to cross Woodward Avenue. On Woodward, pedestrians had to sidestep clanging trolleys, careening bicycles, sputtering motor cars, and snorting horses frightened by the clamor of unregulated traffic … equally frightened by the sight of hobble-skirted women, feather boas flowing from their shoulders and ostrich plumes fluttering from huge hats, mincing across the avenue and dodging the nervous delivery horses.

Some residents, and even some nurses, expect medical students to do a substantial amount of scut work, much of it of the 3 am variety.

Pretreating rats with α-methyl-ρ-tyrosine (30 mg/kg i.p. at -4 h) to interrupt the synthesis of catecholamines antagonized pivoting and retropulsion induced by levallorphan (50 mg/kg i.p.) (WRAY 1973) but, surprisingly, not lateral head movements and pivoting elicited by cyclazocine (3 mg/kg s.c.) (BUCKETT and SHAW 1975).