Word: sulphureous
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...privilege of the rich, and the oh-so-rich at that. Baedeker's United States, published in 1909, rated Bar Harbor and Newport as the two top resorts, and after that the Grand Tour was only a question of whether one preferred the Berkshires to Saratoga, White Sulphur to Hot Springs, or how long to remain at Tuxedo Park. Because the rich were so few, they clustered together in tight little colonies. Their "cottages" were turreted mansions, marble palaces and crenelated castles; they entertained only each other. Their summer colonies were located within a stone's throw of early...
That horrible smell turned out to be issuing from two sulphur bombs, commonly known as stink bombs, planted in Langdell earlier that evening by person or persons unknown. Two Circulation Desk attendants, Lawrence Corbett and Alfrado Ochoa, followed their noses and found a shoebox containing one bomb outside the door of the south entrance to the Reading Room. Soon afterwards, an unidentified law student discovered the second in a phone booth at the south stairwell in the basement...
...dealings, but the Securities and Exchange Commission has become increasingly concerned about possible abuses. Last week, the SEC threw a glaring light on the insider's role in a case that involved one of the hottest business developments of recent times: the announcement last spring of Texas Gulf Sulphur's rich mineral discovery near Timmins, Ont., which set off a stampede of prospecting and stock speculation...
...years of competition. Raised on a wheat farm, he got his start breaking horses for local ranchers, quit school after the eleventh grade to wander the rodeo trail. "Lots of times I had to hock my watch to ride." he says. "Once I set out for a rodeo in Sulphur, Okla.. with five gallons of gas from Dad's pump. I didn't have the entry fee, but a woman who owned a dress shop gave me $30 worth of pennies she had collected. I won fourth in bareback and second in bull riding, and paid that...
Still unsolved is a problem involving Curtis' Ontario timberland, which borders on the Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. copper strike. That potential asset has been tied up by a stockholders' suit charging that the Curtis directors "unreasonably and fraudulently benefited" by concealing news of the strike until they had voted themselves sizable stock options...