Word: savoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spectacular headloads of fruit and flowers. He has collected tribal jadeite masks and jaguar figurines, has painted the giant ancient basalt heads of La Venta, has written down the Italian-like speech of the formidable matriarchs of the market places. Result: an alluring book, rich with the Indian savor that is the best of Mexico...
...fortify his position with the U.S. public, Sablon began over CBS this week (Sun., 5:30 p.m., E.D.S.T.) a series of 15-minute chanson-and-chatter programs. For the first time a coast-to-coast audience could savor the bilingual ambiguities of such Sablon songs as Le Fiacre, the success story of a married woman and her lover. As they are driving about, their coach accidentally runs over the husband, who has been secretly tailing them. The wife looks out, observes: "Splendid, Léon, it's my husband. . . . Give 100 sous to the coachman...
...painted record turned out to be cheaper than color photographs, and had some of the infinite variety and savor of the handmade stuff-alongside which most modern mass produced items looked blandly dull...
...Secret Service. Brilliant, ailing, dynamic S. S. McClure invited him to come to New York, sent him a pass on the New York Central. When he got there McClure had gone to Europe, but the editors took him to lunch, talked about books and articles, and let him savor "the most stimulating, yes, intoxicating, editorial atmosphere then existent in America-or anywhere else." There, with such young associates as Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, William Allen White, Lincoln Steffens, O. Henry, Jack London and Ida Tarbell, he became one of the "muckrakers" who made McClure's the most sensationally successful...
...history was made, the letters that the history makers and their wives wrote, the diaries they kept, the gardens they planted, the poems they wrote, the music they loved-all this is part & parcel of the environment that the Englishman is at peace with, and whose value and savor Professor Rowse celebrates...