Word: savoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...calling as artists, but it is worth getting straight at the outset that there is, or should be, a conservative poise intimately associated with editorial writing. Other sides of newspaper work may provide valuable experience in being hurled out of advertisers' offices, stimulate romance through backstage interviews, and develope savor faire during flash light shots, but it remains for the editorial office to stay quietly at home and think up explanations and alibis for the things other people do. Which after all, is not a bad talent to develop, particularly if one drives an automobile...
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...