Word: toriumful
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...enhances the characters' sense of the wonder of life, and gives a love affair the tang of teary urgency. Lillian and Clerfayte, the leading characters of his latest novel, have that kind of tangy affair. Lillian is a 24-year-old tuberculous patient in a Swiss Alpine sani-torium, and her X rays give her a possible year to live; Clerfayte is a middle-aging (40) racing driver with an addiction to danger and drink...
...teens, Liberty Hyde Bailey made a plan for his life: he would spend 25 years learning, 25 years teaching, and 25 years doing "what I like best." Accordingly, one day in 1913, he simply failed to show up at the dean's office. He went to his Hor-torium (he coined the word) instead. Ever since that day, he has been doing "what I like best"-puttering in his greenhouse ("It is an oasis in one's life. . . . One has dominion"), cultivating his palms (he has the best collection in the world). He has traveled all over...
Bristle-whiskered U. S. Senator James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis defined "moratorium'' by its Latin roots thus: mora from " 'mors' meaning death; 'torium' from 'taurus,' a bull, or the 'dead bull...
...away when they would be needed next December. Outside of Washington Republicans were not thus careful to stifle their delight. In New Jersey last week David Baird Jr., onetime Senator and now Republican nominee for Governor, made a speech which accurately foreshadowed the Republican campaign note on the mora torium. Said...
Died. Edmund Reinhardt, 53, of Vienna, brother and business manager of Theatreman Max Reinhardt; in a sani-torium near Vienna; of heart disease...