Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lowell House: Mr. Coolidge thought that student waiters would be less efficient than the waitresses. . . . He "would not weap salt tears" if it were tried elsewhere...
...correspond to Seattle, Guam to Boston, Sumatra to Southern California, and Florida to New Guinea. The distance from the Japanese naval base on Hainan to the heart of Borneo approximates the air distance from Fargo, N. Dak. to New Orleans, and the distance from Singapore to Manila that from Salt Lake City to Detroit...
...bulk of chiropodic practice consists of corn trimming. Last week Podiatrists James S. Bowman and Robert E. Fowler of Temple University School reported a new way of removing corns by injection. They inject solutions of a bismuth compound or salt water or even sterile water around the margin of the corn, thus choking off the tiny blood vessels which feed it. After several injections, the corn dissolves. This treatment, they cautioned, is still in an experimental stage...
...done; who once exclaimed: "Hell, if they wanted to move the Chrysler Building to Colombia, we'd do it-if they'd pay us for it." And around Manhattan's 52nd Street, habitues of "21" wondered what the club would be like without the old salt and his stories...
...began his career in Germany. At the age of 18 he made a wrought-metal Bible cover for Pope Leo XIII. He came to America 26 years ago, set up shop in Manhattan as a metal craftsman and industrial designer. Turning out Renaissance church doors, table lamps, fruit bowls, salt shakers and a streamlined typewriter, he inspired publicity agents to call him "the American Cellini...