Word: salaman
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...root of all evil, says the Bible, is the love of money. The root of most evil, says Dr. Redcliffe Nathan Salaman, topflight British geneticist, is the potato...
Presiding last week in Birmingham at a meeting of the learned British Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Salaman dragged the potato right out where the world could see it in all its iniquity. "An easily grown, cheaply produced, substantially efficient and pleasantly tasting food," Britain's top potato authority told his fellow scientist's, "can, under certain political and economical conditions, fatally menace the social well-being of the people who adopt...
...botanical novelty into one of the world's largest food crops. Fantastically easy to raise, rich in starch, protein and vitamins, requiring little or no tillage and irrigation, it seemed the perfect poor man's fodder. Yet the very ease with which the potato flourished, cried Dr. Salaman, encouraged idleness, greed, complacency and even drunkenness...
Finally he got a part: as a walk-on at the Playhouse Theater. Within a year he had a bit in John Gielgud's Hamlet and met his wife-to-be, Actress Merula Salaman, in Noah. (She was a tiger, he was a wolf...
...works by Spanish Playwright Calderon (which the Athenaeum considered "quite unnecessary to treat as a serious work"). Then a friend introduced him to what FitzGerald dubbed "the Sweetmeat, Childish, Oriental World" of the Persian language. Three years later, he braved the critics with a rendition of the Persian poem, Salaman and Absal...