Mr. Penner hired Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks and the Eagles to serenade clients, while Mr. Stone jetted around the country with the likes of Donald Trump.
Only the calm persistence with which the water touched, and touched, and touched, sifting all the little stones, jet, and white, and hazel, forced us to remember that the lake was vast, and in league with the moon (for no sublunar account could be made of its shimmering, cold life).
Around the arching water jets that danced in the stone fountain at the park's center, a Philharmonic's-worth of musicians sat at intervals under the halos of streetlamps.
That was where he found the carved symbols on a piece of shiny black jet stone, a type of coal, less than one inch to a side.
In some cases handwritten family labels only vaguely identify the lost relative; an 1830s ring with jet stones around a lock of blond hair arrived at the society a few years ago, with a tag noting that it came from "some old Gardner".
"I think it is one of these things in law enforcement that would just take us from the Stone Age to the jet age in an instant," said Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld III of the Baltimore Police Department.
The relationship between nonobstructive kidney stone formation and ureteral jet dynamics, which can be measured with Doppler ultrasonography (US) and provide information about ureteral peristaltism, has been demonstrated in adults.
Then there's the open-air bathing pavilion which boasts a sunken stone bath with water jets so strong they could blow you home again.
In two columns ("The Slice of the Sliver Speaks," Jan . 3 and "What Would Hillary Rodham Do?" Jan . 5, she has debunked the Iowa caucuses as being something more in line with Stone Age rather than jet-age politics.
Then there are the beverages, which promise to pep you up, slim you down and do everything else that mud baths, hot stones and water jets might do.
