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Look printed last week. When Elliott sought to ensure his interview's value by protecting it from prior publication, Stalin said, with an irony even capitalists could savor: "This is your property. Nobody else will...
That night, at a glittering White House diplomatic reception, Jimmy Byrnes could savor freedom, a dramatic moment, and heartfelt expressions of regret. He beamed and said: "There are two happy days in the life of a man in public office-the day he is elected and the day he steps out." The unexpectedly early news reached General Marshall as his C-54 snored steadily eastward through the skies over Okinawa, bringing him home from China. At eleven o'clock at night, Shanghai time, the plane's pilot, Colonel H. C. Munson, came back to tell...
...should agree that, though Newman Ivey White's trenchant and scholarly two-volume Shelley (1940) has more information, Edmund Blunden's book has all that's necessary for a solid interpretation. A very fair poet himself, Blunden writes of Shelley devotedly, but with the ease and savor of long personal familiarity-not only with Shelley's works, but with his period (1792-1822), the scenes in which he lived and the mass of material about...
Gargoyles & Gladiators. With the coal strike, John L. Lewis, the Great Gargoyle, bid vigorously for Villain of the Year, but Lewis came in second. Theodore Bilbo had been exposed to national view for 20 years, but not until 1946 did the U.S. really savor the fulsome putrescence of Bilbo's bigotry...
...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...