Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Halifax is a salt-rimed sailor's town, dependent on the sea for its livelihood, on war for boom prosperity. But Halifax also has a Calvinist moral attitude; Haligonians still squirm when historians recall that Queen Victoria's father flaunted his pretty mistress, Julie, in the face of Halifax society...
...world got along nicely through most of its history with no sugar at all. There was no sugar in Europe until the Arabs brought their "sweet salt" to Spain in 700 A.D. For centuries afterwards, sugar was regarded as a precious spice, a medicine, a rich man's luxury. Only recently has it been considered a food...
Fourth-generation proprietor of Dildo Cay (pronounced key) and its salt works, Child-of-Nature Hayden parries civilized Miss Carroll's feral advances with reels of mumbo jumbo about the futility of woman's existence on the desolate cay. When he finally weakens, the best he can offer is: "We'd better fish...
...Congress was in an ugly mood. Like the rest of the nation, it was galled by the war news. And it had rubbed salt into its own sores: its pension-for-Congress bill, which the country would not let it forget...
Producer David Hempstead, 33, broad-browed and volatile, who broke the Hollywood ice with Kitty Foyle, quit his job as Utah's Corporation Commissioner to become an RKO script reader at $30 a week. Son of a well-fixed Salt Lake City attorney, Hempstead talked to Hollywood's elder statesmen from the start in the language they understood. "You're just exactly 150% wrong!" became his standard utterance...