Word: morsel
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...Maupassant (Panta Films), in presuming to bring to fervent consummation a liaison that was really carried on entirely by mail between Guy de Maupassant and Marie Bashkirtseff, makes Maupassant out something of a popinjay, shows Marie, in the person of Lili Darvas (wife of Ferenc Molnar), as a luscious morsel even when she is dying a Camille-like death...
After the final battle of Dunmore's War in October. 1774, the defeated Six Nations gathered at Chillicothe, Ohio, for a peace conference. Governor Dunmore particularly requested that the bereaved Logan be presentment a messenger for him. The messenger returned without his man, but with a "morsel of eloquence." Comments the Dictionary of American Biography: "The exactness with which [Logan's] speech was repeated at the conference must always be open to question...
Nobody denies that the French know how to cook. And when it comes to turning the raw material of life into a souffle of light literature, the French are there again. For U. S. readers with ticklish palates, books like The Scandals of Clochemerle will prove an agreeable morsel...
...headline, "Vassar Cooperating," is an appetizer potent enough to make any Yale breakfast tasty. If you add to that juicy morsel the piece de resistance of an immediate cash bonus disbursement for all persons under thirty-six, this being the reading period surprise of the Great White Father, and then dump both sweet essences into the arms of full-blooded Yale men, any Bolshevist will admit that you've got the makings of a dirty-bourgeois bombshell...
Next week Republican voters of Illinois will have a good chance to eliminate either Senator Borah or Publisher Knox from future consideration as a GOPossibility for President. Democratic voters will have a juicier morsel waiting them on primary day: the opportunity of lopping off political heads, of wrecking a great political machine and even of settling the results of next autumn's State election...