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...time the Greeks began telling their myths, Etna was deeply encrusted with legend. Somewhere under the sea, the lame god Vulcan (for whom volcanoes are named) had his workshop. It was said that the smoke and flame from his forge, where he devised various contraptions to annoy his estranged mother (Juno) and his wife (Venus), roared up through Etna's crater...
Hoare's book is in spots awkwardly written and, indeed, reads more like a diplomat's memoranda than a historian's account. The occasional unhappy phrasing and general lack of literary polish, however, is not conspicuous in a work such as this, and should not annoy students of modern Spain, for whom it should be required reading...
...Evening News, which has the world's largest evening newspaper circulation. Other London papers have tried to ape his column, but usually give up for lack of a Jones to write it. But Jimmy, who is 44, regards it as just a pleasant routine chore, and to the annoy ance of his wife, a onetime reporter, has no higher ambition...
...counted out. Champion Reshevsky never plays chess between tournaments; during them, however, he keeps his mind on chess night & day. His wife, who is just learning the game (out of a book; he won't teach her), says that she has to be very careful not to annoy him during this difficult period. But, she adds: "Sam is really very nice. I don't see how the wives of some of those irritable chess players stand...
...Annoy an Oyster. Back in 1890 Mikimoto heard a Japanese zoologist lecture on the possibility of cultivating pearls. Why not implant an irritant like a grain of sand in a baby oyster, see if the oyster would coat it with layers of nacre, and thus form a pearl? Mikimoto decided...