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...reception given in his honor by Octavio da Souza Dantas, Miller got talking with portly (240 lbs.) Augusto Frederico Schmidt, poet, businessman and columnist. Between nibbles of crisp shrimp patties, Schmidt waxed eloquent on political matters. Next day, in his column in Rio's influential Correio da Manhā, he developed his thoughts in an open letter to Miller and, indirectly...
...Purses.." Certain words in ads and sales talks are "repulsive" to women, he said. Examples: habit, bra, leathery, sticky, parched, calisthenics, crust, matron, clingy, model. Good sales words, which "appeal to women's hearts, emotions and vanities": poise, charm, graciousness, dainty, twinkle, hope, blush, bloom, bachelor, crisp, fairness, garden...
Unearthly Tongue. Some time ago, according to one version, a large space ship crashed in flames in New Mexico. Its 15 crew members were burned to a crisp, but luckily some of its instruments remained intact. One was a radio receiver, over which at short intervals came cryptic messages in an unearthly tongue...
...York, which was to become the symbol and the power focus of the new century,* the weather on New Year's Day struck just the right note. "The snow-flakes," said the admiring Times, "were of that fine, crisp quality that lie and wear well." The snow, the prosperity of the land and the mood of the hour seemed to wipe out the black misery of preceding centuries. The worst was over; man was out of the woods...
...excitement, pathos, deep feeling and in places an almost folksong quality." Added Hungarian-born Conductor Dorati, who introduced Bartok's opera Bluebeard's Castle in Dallas last year: "I think of this work as a wonderful and beautiful white diamond. It is just as hard, just as crisp and just as white. I think it is an explanation of the whole man who was Bela Bartok...