Word: float
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Truth was, Eustace was having a difficult time on the other side. Floating about in the Huxleyan semivoid of the next world ("an all-pervading silence that shone and was alive. Beautiful with more than the beauty of even Mozart's music. . . ."), he was embarrassed to find his digestive processes continuing with a "purring" noise. If he tried hard, he managed to recapture physical sensations and sensual memories of Mimi. But to his horror he found himself faced by the same spiritual problems as had dogged him on earth. A "divine white light" kept trying to make a decent...
...early expression of Rome's decay whom today's dictators might particularly have admired was Rome's monstrous Emperor Caligula (A.D. 12-41), whose favorite order was: "Kill him so that he knows he dies." Caligula built two incredibly magnificent pleasure galleys, in which to float imperially on charming Lake Nemi. The galleys were constructed of oak, pine and fir, covered with wool, sheathed in lead, studded with the bronze heads of wolves and lions, marbles, mosaics, porphyry and precious metals. According to one legend they sank to the bottom of Lake Nemi with all hands aboard...
...Middle Western underwriters, the ruling could not have come at a better time. Hungrily, they licked their lips at the prospect of underwriting a huge share of the $500.000,000 in bonds which U.S. railroads may float in the next three years...
...Home sweet home.. . . London Bridge . . . Boats float there and there and British streets dimly lit yet invitingly seen. All family except one sitting by fireside softly singing. There is no place like home. Who is singing? Could it be wife...
...Night-fishing equipment with a float which flashes a light when a fish bites...