Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What a curious flavor...
When Frank I. Cobb, Editor of The New York World, died last December, TIME printed excerpts from some of his most noteworthy editorials. His editorials were the kind that did not lose their flavor with their timeliness. Now they have been collected in a book, Cobb of the World.* Laurence Stallings, his assistant, told apropos of the appearance of the volume some of the facts of Cobb's last days : "The last memory I shall have of Frank Cobb was on the day following Harding's death. He was propped...
...brought in on a stretcher by the police-as an unexpected appetizer to a dinner party. Thus is the play put out of its misery. The Telegram and Evening Mail: "A weak, illogical concoction, marred by much gushing sentimentality." Alexander Woollcott: "An innocent, artless drama . . . invested with the flavor of private theatricals." New York Evening Post: "Miss Bertha Broad's performance of the heroine was fairly competent, but in no way remarkable." The New York Times: "Not sufficiently well characterized and well written to be important or very convincing...
With the discoveries of these two savants, however, and the opinion of Mr. Masefield that the. Trojan War was fought principally for the strategic reason of obtaining possession of the Dardanelles, the study of at least one of the dead languages may take on a certain flavor of romance which almost always attaches itself to the historical past, but which sometimes refuses to grace what is pure fiction. The legend of Roland, for instance, dying in the Roncesvalles, is far more appealing to the imagination than any wholly man made fairy tale. If one can believe, no matter how faintly...
...Federal office holders to work in his behalf, or because he was too militaris- tic, or because the people had become suspicious of the autocracy of the Chicago Tribune, or because Deneen is quite a good man, or for all these reasons put together and spiced with the elusive flavor of political accident...