Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kings' naked native wives, French mistresses to replace them. Manaus went cultural, built a $5,000,000 opera house, closed it again when half the first opera company promptly died of yellow fever. There were also malaria, hookworm, poisonous insects, a Turkish-bath-like heat that overnight dissolved salt, gunpowder. But there was wealth, the apparently inexhaustible wealth of the "black gold...
...effort to discover the cause of his attacks, the doctors gave the young man a dozen different drugs, from common salt to pituitary extract, doused him in tubs of hot and cold water, sent him running up & down 15 flights of stairs. Still whiskey, etc. would send him into his dance. Nothing would cure him. He finally packed up and went home, resolved never to touch a drop again. One thing that consoled him: his leaping great-grandfather had lived to the ripe age of 87; his great-aunt, 72, and great-uncle, 81, were still dancing around...
...British made Colonel Sweeney a reserve captain in R. A. F. to make it all pukka. They segregated the reckless Americans, rather than salt them into the conservative R. A. F. Among them are barnstormers, crop-dusters, stunt fliers, sportsmen. Youngest is Gregory ("Gus") Daymond, 19, of California, who used to fly an ice-cream king around South America. Oldest is Paul Joseph Haaren, 48, also of California, a movie flier. Most celebrated Eagle is Colonel Sweeney's nephew, wavy-haired Robert ("Bob") Sweeney, who won the British amateur golf championship in 1937 and lately squired Barbara Hutton Haugwitz...
...construct the Bolivar for Byron, the Ariel for Shelley. One day Shelley, a very bad sailor, sailed off with two friends and copies of Sophocles and Keats. A few days later their bodies were washed ashore. Trelawny built more funeral pyres. While Byron and Leigh Hunt tossed incense, salt, sugar and wine, Trelawny lit the flames under Shelley's fish-eaten, livid corpse. Said Trelawny: "I restore to nature, through fire, the elements of which this man was composed. . . ." Said Byron: "Why, Trelawny . . . you do it very well." But when Trelawny handed Mary Shelley her husband's "little...
...smell of tar on wet salt...