Word: sulphureous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author, though he is known to would-be thoughtful playgoers on both sides of the Atlantic as a deliciously or irritatingly mystifying playwright, got to the ripe age of 45 without writing a play. Born in Girgenti, Sicily (1867) as son of a sulphur-mine owner, he wrote five books of poetry before he was 23, took his degree in philosophy at Germany's University of Bonn, and went back to Rome to teach Italian literature to women. After he had published 20 books of short stories and three novels, a playwright friend persuaded him to dramatize...
...world of reforestation and economic possibilities are suggested by this new paper. In the economic background is the fact that two-thirds of American newsprint now is imported. Spruce pulpwood costs $9 to $10 a ton. Pine in the South sells for $3.50. . . . Most of the sulphur used in papermaking is hauled from Louisiana to Canada, right through the South. Much of the clay for filler for book paper in America is produced by the three Georgia counties, Washington, Bibb and Wilkinson. It is now shipped Ions distances. In Georgia it almost literally clings to the roots of pine that...
Langbourne Meade Williams Jr., 31, vice president & treasurer of Freeport Texas Co. (sulphur) was elected president succeeding Eugene Levering Norton who stepped up to a less active chairmanship. Last month able President Williams marketed $2,500,000 of Freeport's preferred stock through his good friend (since Harvard Business School days), Partner Albert H. Gordon of Kidder, Peabody...
...Newark, N. J., a salesman entered Mrs. Carrie Baukin's millinery shop, asked her to let him demonstrate his sulphur candles for killing vermin by fumes, lit a sample candle. Mrs. Baukin ran in tears to the street, returned when the fumes had cleared to find no salesman, no money in the cash register...
...strong, sweet, spicy odor resembling that of sandalwood. He feeds on the tops of red milkweeds and thistles, will flee if approached by man. The smell of the female is exceedingly nauseating. The blue butterfly smells like "newly stirred earth in spring or crushed violet stems." The lesser sulphur exudes the fragrance of dried sweet grass. The orange clover's scent resembles heliotrope. If a cloud obscures the sun it at once seeks a resting place, preferably on something yellow. It is very social. The cloudless clover smells of violets and musk, the cabbage butterfly of mignonette and sweet...