Word: salts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fresh proof that this doctor's interests and understanding can reach from Harold Bell Wright to Anatole France without losing sight of actual human conduct. Let them examine "The Fundamentalists and Modernists of Psychology" and be assured that Dr. Collins takes his Freud with a prodigious grain of salt, practical and historical...
...graves were being dishonored, "reviled" was the word he used - "he had no information himself - he hadn't seen a single grave," but he did shoot his mouth off for the front pages. A fine fellow, this Caraway, who for a little of the front page would pour salt on a wound already open...
...Bickle, British Columbia, one Dave Irons was walking up a trail with a bag of salt. Every week he came to this lonely patch of hill-furze and spikeberry, the loneliest section of his range, to salt his cows; once he had seen a bear here, and looking at the place where the black beast had lumbered off he saw, as if conjured up by his memory, a bear come out of the woods and make for him. He ran. The bear followed. The cows scattered, uttering mild cries. At the other end of the field stood a pair...
...street; riotous nights in New York when Barymore and his cronies stole the huge plaster sword from the Dewey arch and paraded with it through every bar on Broadway; nights not so riotous but equally fertile in reminiscence, nights that ended with a breakfast of hot water, pepper and salt in default of money to buy anything more filling; this is the kind of a life that everyone yearns for at some time of his life, and, in all candor, would rather read than the novels that used to be labelled 'problem' and are now called "stark and gripping...
...West India Goods store near the corner specialized in salt fish, rum, molasses, vinegar, farm produce, grain, tea and coffee, hardware, paint, lard oils and a hundred other general commodities. The local jail occupied the property now the site of the Pi Eta clubhouse near the corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston Streets. The community was small and everybody knew everybody else and all about them...