Word: savor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mencken's arguments are a bit high-strange; they savor of viciousness. But it is evident that he has struck a blow in the right place, though he may have struck too hard. From a purely intellectual point of view, the schools need revision. And from the standpoint of financial expediency, they are more than wasteful. For this hard-spent money, the citizens are given, as Mr. Mencken says, the sight of a myrind palatial buildings, "out of each vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy... an endless procession of adolescents who have been taught everything save that which...
...Vagabond has a great sense of what he missed in not being born in the Middle Ages missed-but that is a detail. The Vagabond's heart longs for the sight of glistening helmets and of faire ladyes beneath silken canopies, for the savor of oxen roasted whole in the castle hall, for the hilarious joy of skating with all London on the frozen Thames. But most of all his heart longs for the sight of a Friar Tuck downing his ale in a country tavern...
...storm, how their broken gaff is found on the beach, their bodies hunted in vain until their coble, laden with salmon, breaks through the morning fog between the scaurs, is, with all the rest of their adventures, told with a simplicity and salt that has not lost its savor for having been used in older classics...
...Democrats control the House, "Jack" Garner will become Speaker. But the honor will have lost some of its savor. His friend is dead...
...customs persevere naturally, they add something worthwhile to the interest and beauty in the world. Stimulated artificially, they savor of dilettantism. The proposed university of Inverness would be an excellent thing as a general liberal arts college, not as a source of propaganda for Gaelic dialects. The expenditure of ten million dollars simply for the preservation of the picturesque and quaint can hardly be justified...