Bosley Crowther wrote of Waters in the New York Times, "by playing the girl's old grandmother in a deeply benign and wistful way Ethel Waters endows this gentle lady with tremendous warmth and appeal".
His death has rendered his work utterly clear, like the water he wrote of, the water that wanted to live.
The denomination remains opposed to drinking; there are still Southern Baptists who regard Biblical warnings against "drunkenness" as proof that consuming alcohol is a sin, and who insist that, when John writes of Jesus turning water into wine, he is referring to unfermented grape juice.
The British couldn't get enough of Canaletto, whatever it was that his scenes said to them about the enduring appeal of pomp and magnificence when written on water, or of a political system which may have seemed curiously sympathetic to the Whigs.
Mr Donziger writes of "toxin-laden formation water", but he has not submitted evidence to support the allegation.
Thus the Hippocratic author of Airs, Waters, Places writes of "endurance in body and soul" (ch. 23).
Proctor confidently wrote of "land and water, mountain and valley, clouds and sunshine, rain and ice, and snow, rivers and lakes, ocean current and wind current" that, surely, were serving the needs of Martian life.
A Navy spokesman admitted use of the 'water board' torture... to 'convince each trainee that he won't be able to physically resist what an enemy would do to him.' " In 1991, the columnist Jack Anderson — confusing the phrase about ancient practice with the modern development — wrote of "the Chinese water board demonstration, one of the most dangerous in the Navy arsenal.
Stanley O'Neil, an expert in Flat-coated Retrievers, wrote of the Tweed Water Spaniel in a letter during the late 19th century, "Further up the coast, probably Alnmouth, I saw men netting for salmon.
