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...this point Biographer Quennell is amusing, then his story begins to take on a savor of majesty as Queen Caroline moves into middle age. George II was pig headed, rude and outrageous with Caroline but she remained irresistible to him to the end. With his mistress, Lady Suffolk, he was dutiful, visiting her punctually every evening at nine; with Caroline he was romantic, and his vast letters to her from abroad are, even in their descriptions of his passing affairs, among the most eloquent and moving love letters of the time. Ever affectionate and submissive, adroit enough...
...Longan of the Kansas City Star hates and fears snakes has long been known (TIME, Aug. 8, 1930). Star editors and reporters are under strict orders to keep snakes out of its columns at almost any cost. Last week newsmen had two new, choice Star v. snake anecdotes to savor...
When Van Wyck Brooks called the period of Hawthorne, Emerson and Bronson Alcott the flowering of New England, he did not use the phrase for its warm, poetic savor. Not only in Brooks's book but in lesser works like Odell Shepard's Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Branson Alcott, readers can catch whiffs of a morning freshness in the cultural air, when poets and novelists no less than practical citizens took on themselves lifetime projects, came back to work unshaken after personal tragedy or public disgrace...
Science and the occult have revealed many strange coincidences, some so unusual that they are pregnant with mysticism and also savor of the supernatural. Such a case appears in TIME. Imagine my amazement when I read in your issue of Dec. 13 a letter identical with mine which you printed Dec. 28, 1936, conceived word for word by another just as it had come to my mind, but exactly one year later-truly an amazing coincidence...
Events like these last week by no means astounded New Jersey whose politics has a strong savor of its own. They were in fact the normal accompaniment of a primary election in which the major issue was to choose gubernatorial candidates to succeed Republican Governor Harold Giles Hoffman whose political star has been waning. In the Democratic primary Arthur Harry Moore, up for a third term as Governor after time out to be elected to the U. S. Senate (1935-41), was unopposed. A party split made the Republican race more exciting. Backed by Governor Hoffman's once powerful...