Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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New Genesis. Without any written records of their faith, which were presumably lost in the shipwreck, Saturday's Oilmen handed down what they could remember of their rituals and practices from generation to generation, losing more and more as the centuries rolled on. Then, tradition relates that some time...
"Have you ever looked at Fannie Farmer's Cook Book," asks Mortimer, "to see what was mapped out for a young bride who wanted to serve fish? 'To clean fish: Remove scales that have not been taken off. This is done by drawing a knife over fish, beginning...
Beyond the borders of civilization, they encountered primitive Indians in long, swishing costumes of grass (to keep away insects), others who wore only strings of polished fish scales or small stones around their necks and hips. At some stops, their presents of candy, fishhooks and pocket mirrors were rewarded by...
The economic grievances go back almost as far as the emotional. For decades a double wage standard divided U.S. and Panamanian employees of the canal into well-paid "gold" and poorly paid "silver" classifications, though in some cases they even did the same work. A 1955 agreement provided that "the...
Dr. Robert C. Hunt, born in Egypt of U.S. missionary parents, was assistant commissioner in New York's department of mental hygiene in 1955 when he went to Europe and first saw open hospitals, including Mapperley. Says Dr. Hunt now: "I saw and was converted. It was like scales...