Word: eau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wavering Administration to bungle us into war." In Milwaukee, where he posed with the leader of the oompah German band, no one missed his jab at MacArthur: "This is not a war crisis-it is a peace crisis. Military genius, no matter how excellent, is not the answer." At Eau Claire, he leaned back against a table and talked with cracker-barrel familiarity to local farmers about mastitis, Bang's disease and silage. He confided: "My prime interest outside of my family and job is my farm...
...uncertain English summer," it wrote. "Now that at last this cheerfulness has broken through, let none complain that this sparkling warmth is not to be borne." Grumpily the hot and footsore Standard muttered: "Do not drink iced drinks. They often bring on stomach cramps. Look after the feet. Eau de Cologne and methylated spirits applied at night are helpful...
...public parks, took up with raffish friends, read occult works, underwent what he later described as "mystical, psychic" experiences. For a time he tried gold mining in the Canadian backwoods, and discovered at least the atmosphere later used in Running Wolf and The Wendigo. In Manhattan he made eau-de-cologne, reported for the Sun and the Times, learned something of the "accumulated horror" of the lower East Side...
Wisconsin had the fever worst of all. Thousands of small-towners crowded into Madison, to find themselves out of luck for hotel rooms or basketball tickets; 32 players had to sleep in the city jail. Aggressive little Reedsville High (44 boys) upset Eau Claire in the final, and every one of Wisconsin's 260 little high schools cheered the victory...
...impression. Our agitators must uncrown this German 'culture'. .'. . To draw an analogy: there are people in our towns and villages who hardly ever read and who are really very little developed, but yearn to dress more fashionably, to wear hats, even smoking jackets, and to use eau de cologne. . . . But by themselves and from inside themselves they are not cultured. Such appears to me to be the culture of the German burgher or kulak. This is a purely external culture, an empty one, not grasping the depths of the human soul...