Word: loree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turns out to be a nymphomaniac who believes that variety is the spice of love). But by novel's end, Jacy has found a Florister's one true love, the theater. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice for July, The Flower Girls sprouts eccentrics, melodrama, theater lore, subplots, flashbacks, deaths, alarums and excursions with engaging, old-fashioned abandon. Anyone who plans to while away a lazy summer afternoon with its 629 pages would do well to string up two hammocks, one for himself and another for the book...
...aspects. Down the hall, up stairs and downstairs from them lie the other museum. To the footweary they sometimes seem almost impossible, their halls are no long. To those looking for specific objects they may seem warehouses instead of display-places. Yet the causal onlooker can find there immense lore and satisfaction
...golden age of sport as the heroes he wrote about-Tilden and Ruth and Dempsey, Rockne and Jones and Cobb. His phrases were memorable. Of Notre Dame's 1924 victory over Army, he wrote: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden...
CONQUEST BY MAN (455 pp.)-Paul Herrmann-Harper ($6). This is a German scholar's fascinating survey of travel and discovery before Columbus. Author Herrmann has pulled together all sorts of odd bits of learned lore to show that "the world has been since early times almost as great and wide as in our own day." He tells why experts now think that Bronze Age drummers lugged oaken sample cases through north European forests, and how the Egyptians of 4,000 years ago rowed their galleys 4,000 miles south to the Zambezi River to fetch myrrh, frankincense...
...Butterflies offer directions-in-reverse to the nearest coast because their flights over water are generally suicidal-away from land. Trying to make conversation in Tibet? Better stop talking by midmorning. because after that the wind sets up a "howling, skin-blasting roar." Along with such recherche lore. Author Murchie offers straightforward tips on air navigation to those who may feel the need of them. At his infrequent but embarrassing worst, he plays the Whitman-cum-Thomas Wolfe of the skyways: "I winnow the meager facts, seeking to construct truth only from the clean kernels. I am a human lodestone...