Some devoured salt water taffy and water ices, local summer delicacies.
Other innovations enhancing the resort's reputation included the rolling chair (1884), in which guests were wheeled about, the introduction from Germany of the picture postcard (1895), and saltwater taffy.
"The same family station wagon he used to haul saltwater taffy for his father by day was packed with audio gear at night as he moved from club to club, perfecting his recording technique," said Bebe Emerman.
In smith-made Damascus, carbon steel and other metals are forged into hundreds of layers, and often mixed throughout the knife the way vanilla and caramel are twisted into saltwater taffy.
For the home cook, it's a one-stop shop, chockablock with tools and accessories, from shrimp deveiners and soup socks to lemons, panko, dried seaweed sheets, and mango-lassi-flavored saltwater taffy.
Millepied's piece, "Double Aria," to music by Daniel Ott, was a taffy pull for two of the company's handsomest, most long-limbed dancers, Maria Kowroski and Ask la Cour.
The sound of eight voices straining toward but not quite achieving a unity of pitch, the dissonance stretching like taffy, seems perfectly suited to these attenuated times.
The dog both choked and gasped as if half-drowned, mastering itself enough to sink teeth into flesh, and now Lazarus heard his own screams as teeth struck bone, then reared back without loosening their hold; he screamed for mercy, the teeth pulling his flesh as if yanking at taffy.
All of R.E.M.'s luminous oddness and nested beauty is turned into penny taffy.
