Word: elixir
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...book which added "It" to the vocabulary of the '20s enthralled readers on two continents and enthroned Elinor Glyn as the sultriest literary siren of the pre-Kinsey age. Even more famous, of course, was Three Weeks, a swoonmaking elixir that Elinor uncorked in 1907. Three Weeks, written in six, eventually sold some 5,000,000 copies, and featured a wildly romantic Balkan queen who greeted her lover from a reclining position on a tiger skin with a red rose between her teeth. The book was boycotted in Boston, blasted from pulpits, and celebrated in an anonymous ditty...
Novelist de Beauvoir's Count Fosca is immortal-the result of downing a beaker of the elixir of life distilled by an Egyptian alchemist. So when he meets ravishing Regina, a 20th century French actress, Fosca is 700 years old (he still looks thirtyish) and is thoroughly fed up with life...
Donizetti: Elixir of Love (Margherita Carosio, Nicola Monti, Tito Gobbi; Rome Opera chorus and orchestra conducted by Gabriele Santini; Victor, 2 LPs). A 123-year-old take-off on the Tristan legend involving a desirable and wealthy wench, her two swains, a phony love potion and a welter of sunny tunes (including Una furtiva lagrima). A painless score, handsomely performed...
...blood that gives it a sweeping power to destroy invading germs. Without such built-in protection against infection, man could hardly survive the daily onslaught by billions of microorganisms to which he is exposed. "Something" saves him, but the nature of that something has remained as elusive as the elixir of life...
...real elixir is to be allowed to complete the painting or sanding (this time with the power-sander) . . . on Monday morning, when time ran out or the neighbors came too soon on Sunday . . . Really, I do think do-it-yourself is wonderful fun. But I want my place...