Word: salting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madame's description of herself: "I have always been plain, and since I had smallpox have become more so, and my figure is outrageous. I am as square as a dice, my skin is red, tinged with yellow; I am beginning to go grey and have pepper-and-salt tresses; there are wrinkles on my forehead and round my eyes, my nose is as crooked as it always was, and is pitted with smallpox to boot; as are also my cheeks, which are pendulous with large jaws and jagged teeth. My mouth is changed, too, having become larger...
Having won the javelin-throw and the 10,000-metre run, the Finns held off until the pentathlon. Then Lehtonen again goaded the Americans and a Hungarian, Sonfay, sprinkled salt in the wound by taking first and second respectively, from R. Legendre. Up went the blue and white ensign on the victory flagpole a third time...
...Democrats had more exciting business in hand. It was an assured matter that no candidate, not even McAdoo, would go to the Democratic Convention with half of the delegates instructed. Claims of greater numbers must be taken with a grain of salt. But in the Democratic Convention, with its two-thirds requirement, one third? 365 delegates?can impose a veto on the aspirations of any candidate. McAdoo is likely to control this type of veto against the Smith-Underwood group. The Smith-Underwood group is not unlikely to have a similar stop on McAdoo. The logic of the situation calls...
Revived, feeling vigorous from the salt air and his Sibylline words, he suddenly set out for the Capital?two days before he was scheduled to leave Atlantic City. The immediate result was to bring out on the floor a bill to abolish the Railway Labor Board...
...difficult after the first conviction than before. If Sir Henry could be moved to continue his interesting work, remembering to temper his mercy with common sense, and experimenting with less hardened offenders, he might eventually come to accept his father's opinions with only one or two grains of salt, instead of an entire sellerful...