Word: sampler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admired Unread. As a sampler of vintage literature, Pritchett has excellent taste. These 32 brief essays (many of which have appeared in London's New Statesman and Nation) restore the grandeur of such unvisited landmarks of English fiction as Humphrey Clinker, Middlemarch, Heart of Midlothian, Edwin Drood. They reduce to scale some modern writers-Wells, Bennett, D. H. Lawrence-while adding to the dimensions of several continental Europeans and two Americans: Walt Whitman and Stephen Crane...
...room apartment on Manhattan's elegant Sutton Place. Five bathrooms are done in various pastels-one in baby blue. Decor runs to silver zigzag-patterned wallpaper, thick cream rugs. The bric-a-brac is Brobdingnagian. Twice married, twice divorced, Griffis keeps his current philosophy, stitched in a sampler, hanging on a wall of his pine-paneled library: "High hopes faint on a warm hearthstone. He travels the fastest who travels alone...
...Juice. Dehydrated like blood plasma (which is frozen, dried under vacuum), a new powdered orange juice preserves both the orange flavor and the valuable vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Reported one sampler of the powdered juice mixed with water: "The color is the same, the texture is the same as strained orange juice-even to the tiny particles clinging to the side of the glass." Developed by California Food Research Institute, the process is approaching the commercial stage...
Taxpayer. In Bargaintown, N.J., William Sampler discovered he had been paying taxes for ten years on one house that belonged to him, two that didn't. "I thought those taxes were awfully high," he observed...