Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...religion than the Harvard Yard. The religion of this University is not sentimentally pious, it is neither noisy nor fussy. But it is real. And whatever else a man wishes in a Theological School he wishes this atmosphere of intellectual and moral reality. No show of piety or no flavor of professionalism can make up for any suggestion of unreality. A man may enter the Harvard Theological School knowing that the School is true to the whole temper of the University life...
...opposition offered and no disturbance or damage to private property inflicted in protest. Today, under somewhat different circumstantiates, the newspaper Adam and Eve have been brought out of the newspaper Eden in the Maine woods,--hurriedly wrapped up in horse-blankets, and transported in the depute of flavor to answer to the charge of violating modern game laws...
...another MacDowell. Those who complain of the misdirected energies of the "materialistic" American people will be pleased to note the increasing tendency toward aesthetic appreciation, for, while not directly subsidized by the American government, the Academy functions under a charter from Congress. And who knows but that the flavor of foreign recognition is just the straw of confidence Americans want and need? After all, ours is an embryo development, sans tradition, sans reputation, and recognition from abroad may be the impetus necessary to awaken latent genius...
...spare time, he gives his impressions to the world through essays and short sketches that have a scholarly tone reminiscent of Lamb, yet enlivened by a virile strain inseparable from a man of action. It is a remarkable combination that gives one at the same time the invigorating flavor of the sea and the peaceful meditation of the literary recluse. McPhee is a man of two personalities, or would be if his duty and his avocation were not so closely intertwined by circumstance; but any attempt to keep work and play separated has been thwarted by his complete subordination...
...continuation of Opal Whitely despite the editorial note that "Nothing at all resembling this diary has ever appeared, and we have been assured from several sources that nothing like it will ever appear again." The original needed no exaggeration, and the most delicate perversion has emphasized the absurd flavor of the articles. The animals' names are masterpieces, and Robinson Crusoe Caruso and Hopalong Cassidy should be godfathers to many family pets...