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Ambergris is hard to recognize. Though it is usually ash-grey, it may be white, black, yellow or mottled like marble. It may have a fragrant odor, or an overpowering stench. Some experts claim that even chemical analysis is shaky and that ambergris, like a fine wine, may be truly identified only by its bouquet. For use in perfumes raw ambergris must be ground in a mortar, soaked for six months in 95% alcohol...
...Terrace. The tight white coat of the wire-haired fox terrier Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston was hound-marked with tan; the silky white of the pointer Benson of Crombie marked with liver. Snowflake, the Old English sheepdog, looked like a fresh snow drift blanketed with fine blue-grey ash. Only the Pekingese Wu Foo of Kingswere showed no white in its tawny-red fluff. The final judging lasted 20 minutes. Dr. Jarrett watched the six prize-winners as they circled the ring; eyed their carriage, gait and spirit; felt their shoulders, briskets and coats; solemnly pondered his decision...
...sang the taxing music every bit as well. Twelve years ago critics used to find fault with Althouse's bleating but now, at 44, his voice is perfectly controlled, rich with color. Thoroughly exciting was the scene where he pulls Wotan's sword out of the ash tree. He jumped up on the table, grasped the hilt firmly, steadied himself and gave a mighty jerk that was felt throughout the audience...
Before he got out of school in his home town of Uddevalla, Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren had a shrewd eye for the main chance. Swedish legend relates how at the age of nine he developed a thriving business in baskets and ash trays woven from tin strips dumped outside herring canneries, how he organized his playmates to make and sell his product, how he thrashed them when their salesmanship was poor. Son of a Swedish count, he later worked in Gothenburg but, restless and energetic, went to Berlin to learn big business. Later, like Ivar Kreuger, he worked and traveled...
...leaving the pool, the water goes through a "haircatcher" which removes any lint from bathing suits or any similar material which has remained in the water. After this, it is heated to between 72 and 75 degrees. It then runs through two coagulant pots, one of soda ash and the other of alum, which prevent undue acidity. The main work of filtration is done by 27 tons of special graded Cape May, New Jersey, fine sand, through which the water seeps. Before entering the pool again, the water is impregnated with chlorine gas, which lends a greenish color and which...