Word: stingless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...master in an English boarding school. The title character is the sort of person who flogs his charges for the sake of discipline, and then invites them over for Sunday dinner. He seasons his great portion of kindliness and human understanding with a splendid vein of gruffness and stingless sarcasm. He manages to preserve enough austerity to keep up the discipline until three females appear on the scene; the sister of the woman, now dead, whom he should have married, and that woman's three daughters, aged twenty, eighteen, and fourteen. Then the old sentimental story of ordered bachelorhood...
...much room. Their collapsible canvas boats were always being punctured by rocks in the rapids of the Kuluseu, but came in handy when they reached the Xingu, tributary of the Amazon. Flies were their constant companions: borochudas, which leave a blood-blister; garapatas, which cling together in swarms; stingless bees, which crawled "up our nostrils, into our ears, down our necks"; fire ants, whose bites "feel exactly like flames rippling over one's body"; big black ants which hissed like snakes when you pinned them down with a twig. When they were working through rapids they had to look...