Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill McDougall, the expose reporter, is resting up from the war which he spent for three years in a Jap prison in Java resting up from a previous career covering airplane crashes out of Salt Lake City...
...engage in a sport that was just as delicate and more dangerous than trout fishing. The trick was to avoid the submerged rocks, and to get at the fish at the right time-either by casting or trolling by moonlight. It was like an old-fashioned coon hunt on salt water...
...There he wrote his famed study De I'Amour, in which he presented his theory (now commonplace among psychologists) of love as a process of "crystallization." Love, he claimed, was like a ragged, bare branch that falls into a salt-mine, and when taken out a few months later is so richly coated with sparkling crystals that it appears beautiful beyond belief. Thus the passionate imagination of love renders a loved one beautiful-and, in the process, stimulates the soul of the lover to triumphs of estheticism...
...usually get a touch of seasickness from historical romances, marine or otherwise. This fifth and (according to the publishers) last of the series is the poorest of the lot. It involves too much dry-land maneuvering and lush love-making on Hornblower's part, too little Royal Navy salt and lore...
...many another city, wise theatergoers would have put that one down in salt and waited for the still greater new actress of week-after-next. But since London's theatrical critics are perhaps the least effusive group of professionals on earth, there was a distinct possibility that young Miss Herlie was probably not far short of the 18th Century's Mrs. Siddons...