Word: embalmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy camel lope of a Foreign Legion post. Atlantis turns out to be populated by a carefree tribe whose principal activities are beating the tom-tom, drinking large quantities of a potent juice called arrack, and ogling the dancing girls. In their more solemn moments, they sometimes pause to embalm unwelcome visitors in molten gold...
...army that General Lee is running, but to me it looks more like a combination of junket, political shakedown, misuse of Governmentmaterial, maltreatment of subordinates and a happy hunting-ground for desk-bound brass which spent most of its war at home and is now trying to embalm its rank abroad...
...Stone Age economics: the most vindictive chain-store tax ever proposed. Not content with imposing a tax of $50 to $500 per store (on a graduated scale geared to the total number of stores owned by a chain all over the U.S.), the Utah bill also aims to embalm existing chains by putting additional taxes up to $5,000 on every new unit and on any old store expanded or relocated...
...erent forms and in three different ways. . . ." Senator Tobey, one sponsor, dourly said the committee was so thorough it reminded him of the old Yankee who was asked by an undertaker what should be done with the body of an unloved relative. The old Yankee wired back: "Embalm, bury, cremate and freeze - take no chances...