Word: salts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secret" search for "The Virgin of Stamboul"; of the children paid to stare into a store window at September Morn, upon her debut in this cold world, until Anthony Comstock came and raised the fuss that sold Miss Morn into the millions; of "Lot's Wife," sculped in salt to advertise The Queen of Sin and left lying about with a note of introduction from Sodom and Gomorrah. The police discovered her-and the hole in her back showing her wooden spine...
Every word of the extensive title is draught with relevant symbolism. Sodium obviously is to be taken as representative of activity righteous, of course, Salt implies well seasoned matter. The stability of the benzene nucleus is well known to chemists, as are the cleansing properties of the napthols. Then disulphonic acid is suggestive of fiery rebuke to iniquitous actions. However, in the abridged forms, proposed by the Herald, much of this significance is lost. Only the complete title does itself justice; and only the complete title attains to a sonorous dignity. This objection is not vital, but years of experience...
...sodium salt of benzene azo-8-acetylanimo-napthol-disulphonic acid has been discovered by reputable chemists to be the exact equivalent of crimson. Delightful predictions have been made by the Boston Herald to the effect that the Harvard Crimson will now be titled the Daily Sodium Salt of the Daily Azo-8, the abbreviated terms being necessitated by the limitations of proof reading. The originality of these oracular murmuring is unimpeachable; their pertinence unexcelled. Without doubt the prophecies will stimulate profound and wide-spread reflection...
...tilted to starboard?waved his hand. Chatting with pressmen, he stroked his goatee?a preposterous tuft no bigger than a barnacle?responded wittily to their sallies, screwing up his eyes when the sun shone against his face?a very brown face, drawn taut with the whip of sea-salt. "What good is the Cup to America when you have nothing to put in it?" asked he. "I understand the only thing you have left to put in it would burn the bottom...
...covered itself with mud. Two players have tried to discredit the sport which they represent, for the sake of victory. What effect this incident will have on the national game is hard to predict. The wound which the White Sox inflicted in 1919 may prove still sensitive to the salt of scandal...