Word: sulphurously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife of the publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, Mrs. Mark (Willie Snow) Ethridge is a member of a rather small subdivision of womankind. Last week, at a meeting of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Mrs. Ethridge good-naturedly explained just what was so special about being a newspaper publisher's wife...
...Sulphur & Holy Water. While some of the guests went outside to see the newcomer's coach, which shone like a mirror and was drawn by a horse with flaming eyes, the stranger danced with Blanche, who trembled as he whispered: "How pretty you are!" Then they passed close to the Moreaus' two-year-old son, who shrieked, "Bru! Bru!" (Burn! Burn!). Seized with a dreadful presentiment, the mother dipped holy water and sprinkled the stranger. The Devil-for it was he-turned hideous, jumped to the ceiling, then ran right through the stone wall and vanished...
Ceylon, which is not a U.N. member (it was vetoed by Russia), is the only commonwealth nation that has shipped any rubber to Red China in 1952. The U.S. State Department has retaliated by cutting off sulphur exports to Ceylon, and by canceling $500,000 in Point Four...
...Cabernardi. They bedded down in mule stalls, took walks along dark tunnels lit only by their battery-fed cap lamps, and relaxed with Communist papers sent down from the shaft head. On the surface, their families camped forlornly near -barbed-wire enclosures redolent with the rotten-egg smell of sulphur furnaces. A constant stream of baskets containing fish, cheese, soup and meat passed through the gate to be sent below. With the baskets went an occasional note. "If you don't come up, I'll go away forever," wrote one wife. Her husband scrambled out of the emergency...
Next day the entire village went to the church to pray that St. Barbara might find them some more sulphur...