Word: sweats
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During the midnight hours while the S. S. Dumbea swelters through the tropic heat of the Suez Canal, two sweat-drenched passengers turn in their steamer-chairs, begin to talk. One is a U. S. scientist, Joel, the other an Anglican missionary priest. As befits the steaming trough, bordered by desert horizons, in which they find themselves, their talk treats of life's early beginnings, Man's ends and possible...
...Crow from his fallen airplane, is drowned himself. In dithyrambic periods Author Powys sings his hero's praise: "He had never been a fastidious man. He had got his pleasure from smelling at dunghills, from making water in his wife's garden, from snuffing up the sweet sweat of those he loved." "A great book is a great evil." said the Greeks. A Glastonbury Romance, no exception, goes a long way to prove the rule...
...Sweat session-the attempt to put a pledge pin on a man. (Pennsylvania...
Buzz a man-put in sweat; give a rushing line; induce a freshman to join a fraternity. (Pennsylvania...
...ring a horse, but it's a racket, like anything else. . . . You must know the markings of the horse so the 'ringer' can be made up accordingly. It costs about $100 to dye a horse. . . . Before you put the dye on it's necessary to sweat the horse and dry him out. . . . "When we rung Aknahton as Shem at Havre de Grace, I shipped the horse back to Jamaica, then sent him to Crown Point, Ind., where . . . the Pinkertons located him. . . . I gave a certain police official $500 . . . and they never saw him again until...