For a woman always has the last word. So, too, it was in the old days....
[1] Fort Knox, Kentucky, in addition to being an army post is, in 1942, a bastioned repository wherein is stored seventy-five percent of the entire world's gold.—Ed.
[2] The original "Trojan Horse" was a huge, hollow effigy of a horse, built at the command of Odysseus (Ulysses), and left outside the gates of seven-years-besieged Troy by the apparently retreating Greeks. The exuberant Trojans, unable to wheel this gigantic testimonial to their victory through the gates of their city, broke down a portion of the walls, though warned by the "mad prophetess", Cassandra, that this was a trick. That night a Greek "Fifth Column" crept from within the Trojan Horse and opened all gates of Troy to the returning Greek armies, who laid waste the city.—Ed.
[3] Linber: to kidnap. From "Lindbergh"?—Ed.
[4] Netherland Plaza: One of Cincinnati's finest hotels. It boasts the Queen City's tallest "sky-scraper", a structure known as the "Carew Tower".—Ed.
[5] A corollary to advancement in culture seems to be increase in various sensitivities, both mental and physical. Thus, as humans are more delicately evolved than their arboreal ancestors, they are correspondingly more prone to the ailments which accompany such evolution: deafness, blindness, loss of the sense of smell, etc.
Similarly, the higher classes of Daans might be expected to have become more highly pigmented than their amphibious predecessors. Physical coloration would be a refinement of physique to a race which, under the cloud-blanketed skies of Venus, would in its elemental stages show no reaction to diffuse actinic rays.—Ed.
[6] Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Duane's era one of America's finest colleges of science and engineering.—Ed.
[7] Janus: Roman god with two faces, each looking in a different direction. After this god is named our month of "January", which looks back at the old year, forward to the new one.—Ed.