Tantalus

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• But fifty cents a pound is a thousand dollars a ton, and his fifteen hundred pounds had exhausted his emergency fund and left him stranded at the Tantalus point where each day he saw the fresh-whipsawed boats departing for Dawson. THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
• For Tantalus the Greek designer, Dionysius Fotopoulis, uses a smoked glass backdrop, creating the illusion of greater space and a sense of the play being a reflection of all our lives.
• Green monkeys are also called vervets, tantalus, sabeus, and grivet monkeys.
• The most common primate recorded by Barber et al. was baboon Papio anubis, with lower numbers of patas and tantalus monkeys (Cercopithecus patas and C. tantalus), and low numbers of black and white colobus monkeys Colobus guereza in the dry forest. Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
• Visually quartering the room, he located the tantalus, crossed to it, poured a large measure of brandy into a crystal glass. The Perfect Lover
• The Dumbocrats should run campaign adds featuring Pat Boone's Fruit-of-the-Loom commercials from the '70's and ask rhetorically, who is the "treat"? tantalus wrote on November 5, 2007 6: 41 AM: Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Kentucky GOP Pushing Anti-Gay Message In Final Days Of Gov Race
• The first lockable Tantalus appeared around the mid 19th Century and was first seen in England around 1870.
• Many words come from Greek roots, but the roots for "tantalize" run all the way to Greek myth about a misbehaving son of Zeus named Tantalus. NPR Topics: News
• Julian went to the tantalus on the sideboard and poured himself a brandy to steady his nerves. Sepulchre
• On the table, beside the lamp, was a tantalus and a glass, and a half empty syphon. The Motor Pirate