Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bodegas & Charms. In the Barrio (i.e., district), the Puerto Ricans have created their own city. The store signs are in Spanish. At the bodegas (grocery stores) they sell green coconuts, chick peas and mangoes. The carnecerias (butcher shops) sell Spanish sausage, salt pork fat, chicken feet (3 Ibs. for 25?) and salted pigs' tails...
Utah: Warwick C. Lamoreaux, LL.B. '38; 422 Utah Oil Bldg., Salt Lake City...
...Fish & Salt Water. Berlioz, like the hero of a Balzac novel, was a man who drove his way to fame through sheer determination. He was steered into medicine by his physician-father, but he hated it. When his parents opposed his musical career, Berlioz calmly wrote, "I shall succeed . . . There is no longer any point in being modest about this...
...Berlioz-written Mass performed in Paris' Church of St.-Roch. After his first try for the Prix de Rome (he later won it), his father cut off his allowance in an attempt to force him back to medicine. Berlioz continued to compose, living sometimes only on raisins, salt and bread earned by singing in a Parisian theater, scribbling musical criticisms and giving guitar lessons...
...personal life was breathless and obsessive. He was continually in & out of love, twice halfheartedly attempted suicide to prove his devotion. His punishment for one clumsy attempt at sea, Hector told a friend, was "to swallow a lot of salt water and be yanked out like a fish . . ." He was married twice, both times unhappily; his only son Louis became a sailor, died two years before his famous father...