Word: digestability
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...Greene: "I must beg of you, Mr. Savile, that you will not refer to the English Church as if it were some female of your acquaintance. I tell you, I cannot digest my dinner if you will talk...
...alternatives for Germany's future: "Hitler may lie down and digest for a bit--he's sailed pretty close to the wind, you know ... or, what I'm most afraid of is that Germany may be like a man on a bicycle if he stops moving he'll have to jump off." Also, he said, the Nazis would face an intolerable situation if they have to "jump off" because of the difficulty in converting their nation from a wartime to a peacetime economy...
...shelving a peace message from the President to A. F. of L.'s 58th convention (TIME, Oct. 17). In consenting last fortnight to renew negotiations, William Green restated that A. F. of L. cannot and will not concede anything in the interest of peace. Having taken time to digest this warlike statement, Teamster Tobin announced that the pressure of his own union's business made it "absolutely and utterly impossible" for him to serve. In that way Mr. Tobin put himself in the position of a Federationist to whom Franklin Roosevelt might eventually turn for a peacemaker when...
...Berrey did most of his research in Walter Winchell's column, Variety, Billboard, "cinemags," Reader's Digest, TIME, LIFE. Some nuggets...
...minor poet: "Any poem starting with 'And when' is a serious poem written by a major poet. . . . Any poem, on the other hand, ending with 'And how' comes under the head of light verse, written by a minor poet." Or his suggestion for a digest to end digests, "which condensed a Hemingway novel to the single word 'Bang!' and reduced a long Scribner's article about the problem of the unruly child to the two words 'Hit him.' " The most polished baiter of TIMEstyle extant, he includes A Guide...