Word: sapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mozart: Concerto in D Minor (K. 466) for Piano and Orchestra (Rochester Philharmonic with José Iturbi; Victor; 7 sides; $4.50). Late Mozart with plenty of Romantic sap. The Rochester Philharmonic, which started recording less than a year ago, again proves it is an outfit to be reckoned with. Pianist Iturbi scintillates at the keyboard, conducts the orchestra at the same time...
...press generally hailed the new tax proposals, prayed that Congress would have the nerve to cut out the non-defense plush trimmings and tax the sap out of the citizenry. Probability was that Congress would finally whip itself into such a hypnotic frenzy of patriotism and concern that it would pass a much-less-cowardly-than-average tax bill...
...Greeks turned to us for succor. . . . They declared they would fight for their native soil . . . even if we left them to their fate. But we could not do that. There are rules against that kind of thing. . . . An act of shame would deprive us of . . . respect . . . and thus would sap the vitals of our strength...
...significant. Actually Cousin Joe had little need for borrowed isolationist cartooning. The Daily News's own Pulitzer Prizewinning, Kansas-born Cartoonist Clarence Daniel Batchelor had already created the most potent anti-war cartoon of all-the two creepy, skeleton-faced, voluptuous harlots labeled World War II ("Uncle Sap's New Girl Friend") and her fuller-blown mother, World War I (see cuts). Of late these ghoulish temptresses have appeared on Publisher Patterson's editorial page with almost comic-strip frequency-graphically timed to make the most of bitterly intensifying Lend-Lease debate, demonstrations, effigy lynchings...
...years researchers of Chicago's Swift & Co. hunted for a chemical which would delay the spoiling of lard by oxidation and would protect lard's linoleic constituent, rich in vitamin F. They finally found what they wanted in gum guaiac, made from the sap of the tropical American guaiacum tree. Swift's President John Holmes said that lard treated with tiny amounts of gum guaiac was odorless, bland in flavor...