Word: sweats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlenbach's jaw, at which the latter sank to his knees, his cloudy face even cloudier. A bell had rung then, and Burly Berlenbach got to his corner and the smelling salts. But, after that, McTigue seemed very tired. His debonair red trunks were soggy and dark with sweat. Still he retreated, always faster than Berlenbach, ducking, rocking, pulling away. His right hand, broken long ago, was little use to him. At the end of the bout, it was the young German whose legs sagged, the old Irishman who seemed fresh; and, though he knew, as he sat staring...
Nine steaming, sweat-gilded, bloody-eyed finishers...
...nimble 33, 9 finished- 9 steaming, sweat-gilded, bloody-eyed horses, plastered with mud from cannon-bone to belly, and 9 taut riders bent to their necks. In front was Double Chance, owned by Fred Archer and D. Goold, at 100 to 9. Neither the horse nor its rider, Major J. P. Wilson, an amateur, had ever before ridden the course...
Here the hero paused. Men on either side wiped the sweat from his brow and pressed a glass of ice-cold water against his lips, while the Deputies cheered with all the fiery warmth of their Latin blood...
STRAWS AND PRAYER-BOOKS?James Branch Cabell?McBride ($2.50). All life, Mr. Cabell points out, is a pleasant fiction. "No child plays with a straw: he brandishes a sword. . . . The young man, exultant, terrified, touches and uncovers, not an expanse of epidermis and small hairs and sweat glands, but the body of a goddess . . . and the aged clasp not a prayer-book but the key to eternal bliss." "Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions...