Word: savoring
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...order of Grub Street, Thalia meets her dressmaker every morning, Melpomene goes nowhere without her modiste, and Terpsichore: picks a wardrobe that, if brief, is always brilliant; for Grub Street has: found that pot boiling has a better : savor to the public if it is done in fancy dress...
...tumult and the shouting would savor not a little of the ridiculous if it were not so ominous in its potential results. France has not necessarily committed a hostile act: in her own official words, she is merely sending "a mission of engineers and functionaries" to supervise details of carrying out treaty terms, and nothing more. But the magic circle has been broken. With the spell lifted, there is no foreseeing...
...commuter, stopping in his unceasing search for daily bread, opens "Life's" mournful pages with the hope that perhaps some pleasing ray of light may issue from the same to cheer this dull world. But the dirges written there savor of some former day, of the rewards of a similar quest in the past, and he is astonished to find the cover of quite recent date...
...appeal to the men of our colleges and universities to throw their energies into the winning of this war--which we are pledged to wage till "justice and mercy" prevail among the nations of the earth--would savor of the gratuitous. From our colleges and universities have gone forth thousands--thousands of our best, physically and mentally. Our student ranks throughout the country are riddled...
...Middle West how much broader was its vision and how much deeper was its patriotism. Now that war editorials in the Eastern city papers have taken second place in the nation's war plans to the demand for men, and pretty words have lost, like the problematical salt, their savor, the West and the Middle West are citing their larger contributions in men to our fighting forces as proof of their true and actual patriotism...