Word: savorable
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There is very little in the remarks of two or three young men which appeals to a large audience uncomfortable in the warmth of a June morning. The speakers are unknown to most of their hearers, too familiar to the rest of them. What they say is bound to savor of the graduation school of elocution heard on a thousand platforms in this same month of June, which no weight of tradition can make more valuable...
...only a few divinely gifted men retain after they have lost their ignorance of them. Dickens knew the secret when he wrote that spiritual epic "The Christmas Carol". Not many Bob Cratchits can quite forget the next rent bill even in the midst of the feast, and the faintest savor of the mundane changes the Olympian ambrosia to a mess of porridge that is only a little more appetising than the every-day fare...
...contemporary scene a revival from its best days, its long-ago, pre-war (Civil War) days. Virginia revived its oldtime Governor's Ball in the Grays' Armory at Richmond. Everything was done, including smilax, minuets and no admission for whippersnappers until after the grand march, to make the affair savor of a vanishing grand manner...
Aside from the happy freshness of such a belief, there is savor in comparison of Mr. Benn's convictions with those of Baron Acton, who, according to the current Commonweal, seventy-five years ago wrote in his diary of the Harvard curriculum...
...editorail staff was moved from Cleveland to New York on or about that date. Approval! Approval! Approval! New York is the only fit and adequate home for TIME and I have already noted an improvement in your issued of August 1, August 8 and August 15. They have more savor already and they seem to me to show that you are now successfully gleaning a much larger field of news information than you could possibly have drawn upon in small-town Cleveland. J. C. SINGER...