Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with his wife, Kleinchen (Little One), to the stage door of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. He climbs the creaky stairs to the primo tenore's dusty dressing room,* fumbles around among the costumes of Tenors Richard Crooks and Giovanni Martinelli for his own raiment of deer skins and knightly robes. He washes himself in an antiquated, marble-topped washstand, glowers at the dead flies in the basin-shaped chandeliers, and applies his grease paint. In exactly 20 minutes he is dressed as the young Siegfried, his noble paunch encased in a deer skin, his stubby grey hair...
...great hunter on the stage, Lauritz Melchior in real life is hardly less terrible. The deerskin costume he wears as Siegfried is the skin of a deer that he shot and skinned himself on a hunting trip in Germany. When he can get a week off from the opera, he makes for the woods of Maine or North Dakota, where he prowls around with a brass hunting horn and a brace of dogs, gunning for ducks, rabbits, deer. He has shot panthers in South America, once bagged a 1,600-lb. bison in North Dakota. In New Brunswick he shot...
When Mother Earth's skin creeps, it usually creeps all over. Observatories all over the world reported that their seismographs had kicked up. In the California coast range, an earthquake woke sleepers. In South Africa's rich Rand, 25 tremors sent natives running for the countryside. Bolsena, near Rome, felt four shocks, and Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras all reported quakes...
...arthritis is a streptococcus infection, British and German doctors 15 years ago tried injections of gold salts to combat the germs. Although 10% of 750 British patients were "cured," and 57% showed "marked improvement," American physicians hesitated to experiment with the salts. Reason: an overdose of gold may produce skin rashes, a sore mouth and tongue, disorders of the kidneys and blood. But over a year ago. Dr. Dawson decided to try chrysotherapy (from the Greek chrysos, meaning gold...