Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Docteur Gauducheau was clapped, cheered and feted, at Paris, by 150 gourmets banqueting under the auspices of La Societe d'Acclimatisation (French National Society of Acclimatization). This august body, unique, is devoted to popularizing in France new or outlandish products, processes, animals, or plants which seem to possess authentic merit. Last week the blushing and bowing discoverer of intrasauces was assured that his name will live with that of Marie Harel, immortal creator of fromage camembert, to whom a monument was recently erected and dedicated by onetime President Alexandre Millerand (TIME, April 23). Modest Culinary Immortal Dr. Gauducheau then...
...architect and artist of the building I possess the right to insist that the building shall be constructed as planned, and even after the completion of the building I have the right to insist that the structure shall be maintained as I built...
...point in his book, America Comes of Age, remarks: "The great newspapers, as everyone knows, live entirely by their advertising. Logically, therefore, they are bound to fall sooner or later under the influence of high finance and big business which pays for publicity. . . . The national interests thus possess an effective means of moulding the public to their ends by withholding what they think it should not know and presenting each subject from the desired angle...
...Furious political squabbling began, as the Socialists, who do not themselves possess a majority angled for support from the left-centre parties...
...That's their proper fodder!" *The gourmand may be a mere glutton. The gourmet must possess an ecstatic discrimination among foods similar to the faculty of the dgustateur of wine...