Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...author explains that Sam Hamilton is Irish, but even poetic Irishmen must sometimes break down into plain, unmetered English. The fact is that even not being Irish does not save some of the other characters from this same precisely-accented. false speech. Lee, the Chinese servant, would be an appealing person if he spoke just plain excellent English, instead of Mr. Steinbeck's pretty sentences...
Despite its pretentiousness, the book has some completely charming parts. Lee's tale of how he engaged four learned old Chinese sages to learn Hebrew in order to translate a crucial verb in the Bible is one of them, as is the story of how Sam Hamilton's wife took her first plane ride. The flight was doubly terrifying because the airplane was something she essentially did not believe...
...Senator Lyndon Johnson, who as chairman of the Senate preparedness subcommittee, has constantly criticized the Administration's mobilization policies, was less enthusiastic than Sam. But he said he would vote Democratic...
...Widow Bardell's breach-of-promise suit, Mr. Pickwick (George Howe) counts for much more on the stage than he does in the book. This means-and it is the measure of where Dickens suffers most-that Mr. Pickwick counts for much more than his gloriously Dickensian servant, Sam Weller. The trial scene, too, though it is made the climax of the evening, has been shorn of its full comic grandeur, with Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz's appearance in it all too brief. But Stiggins, the red-nosed parson, and Jingle and Mrs. Leo Hunter and many others have...
...Sam Clemens of Hannibal, by Dixon Wecter. The late editor of the unpublished Mark Twain Papers shows how much Clemens' youth contributed to the golden dream of boyhood in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (TIME, Sept...