Word: morsel
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...Correspondents snapped up a morsel of information that the President let drop. He favored reduction of normal taxes, surtaxes and inheritance taxes if the prospective Treasury surpluses were large enough...
...poor razorbill, poor gull, guillemot, cor morant, tern and albatross! Ships that pass in the day or night vomit over the oceans the black waste of their oil-burning engines. Puffin, gannet, razor bill, gull, guillemot, cormorant, tern or albatross, dipping in their wake to gobble up some bilge morsel, floats flapping and crippled among the sliding sea hills, unable to rise for a cloying anointment that lays his feathers flat, seals his wings. He wearies, starves, sickens, dies, is flung ashore by the tides to testify in flyblown silence to the tyranny...
...STEAMER BOOK-Compiled by Edwin Valentine Mitchell-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). A snack of Stevenson, a morsel of Melville, a tidbit of Dibdin, a fact or two about navigation and (for convalescence) one or two very short stories by Hawthorne, Daudet and compeers. In meagre fashion and with no lavish excess of ingenuity in arrangement, all tastes are catered to. There is a scientifico-detective story. There are lines from Lord Tennyson...
...crowd collected on the left bank of the Seine, scurried along the Quai d'Orsay, hung about the Ministere des Affairs fitrangeres or French Foreign Office. Up the steps was walking the Marquess of Crewe, British Ambassador to France. "Le voila," cried a voice, choking down a morsel of the yard of bread which he carried under his arm. "C'est le rol George." "Non, non," re- sponded another, "c'est I'ambassadeur britannique." "Je vous dis. ..." The honking of an automobile horn interrupted the incipient altercation. Out of the car stepped a man dressed...
...Government than the word economy. It rolls with a quiver of delight on the tongue of the President. It rolls and rolls again on the tongue of the Director of the Budget. The Cabinet munch it at their meetings. Only last week, Secretary Hoover offered the dainty morsel again for the President's tasting in the annual report of the Department of Commerce...