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...returned to the sirocco, fleas, dirt and picturesque boredom of Sardinia. Like all Northerners with noses she was chiefly impressed by the smell: "A little rotten seaweed and fish, a great deal of dirt, tomatoes and paprikas frying in oil, sardines roasting over charcoal fires, garlic, overripe figs, grapemust. tar and pitch from the boats, cheap Virginia tobacco, richly overflowing gutters, and fishing nets hung out to dry. And over and above all, like a dominating undertone, the salt freshness...
...Commencement when as many as eight candles would glimmer in each of old University Hall's 178 windows. But candle-burning seemed dangerous and in 1827 Brown's President Francis Wayland put a ban upon it. No use for students and alumni to protest by burning a tar barrel on the campus; their president rushed out from his house and angrily drove them away...
...When one form of government is found by the majority not to answer the grand purpose in any tolerable degree, they may by common consent set up another." So began the American Revolution, in times when patriots poured lofty sentiments into the ears of their fellows, and pots of tar over the heads of hated "loyalists." The Vagabond remembers, as the Vagabond remembers most things, how the Seniors at Harvard dressed only in American-made clothes, and held no Commencement, "on account of the confusion and distress of the times." Then it was that the College moved en masse...
...viscosity of oil is lowered when the oil is heated. To permit the fuel to remain stable when the temperature is raised a saponifier, such as grease, or a peptizer, such as a coal tar product, is added. This mess of coal, oil and stabilizer was the turbid black liquid pouring last week through the Scythia's fuel pipes...
...novel Puritan's Progress (1931) Author Train credited U. S. Puritans with having a sense of mirthless humor that is a kind of coal-tar derivative from their "keen scent for the fumes of Hell." In contradistinction to this darkling humor he sets "gaiety, the most comprehensive of virtues, for it signifies faith, hope, charity and courage." In Princess Pro Tern he tosses all four ingredients generously into the potboiler, serves up a book that, whatever its faults...