Word: savors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Song of the Flame.* Have Messrs. Harbach and Hammerstein, authors of Rose-Marie, repeated? They have not, quite. They have scrambled up some princes and peasants in the hot pan of the Russian revolution, unscrambling them again in Paris-a moderately tasty plot, but lacking romance's true savor. Composers George Gershwin and Herbert Stothart have tried to catch the Slavic note, but the U. S. is too full of sad-singing Russians for their imitators to go undetected. Joseph Urban has spread out the settings with a fine free hand. Choreographer Jack Haskell has set in motion some...
Beyond question, the gradual extinction of what was once a flourishing department is explicable in terms of the modern attitude toward old-fashioned public speaking with its strong savor of Websterian oratory. English 10 was deeply imbued with this tradition. To day the too polished speaker is more apt to be distrusted than admired; the prevailing theory, unfortunate as it often is in its results, is that if a man be sufficiently full of his subject, the words will come. To betray attention to old time rules of inflection and gesture, imperfectly mastered, is far more disastrous to the modern...
...Plympton Street and to the world at each end of Plympton Street, and even beyond, a column worthy longer and wider streets or greens or whatnot, a column which will at worst be a cenotaph, at best a pillar of salt. For, "if the salt shall lose its savor"--whereof the column? To Perfervid Professors and People In The Next Seats is it dedicated. Civilizations and columns are built on both...
...racing against Sir Thomas and the others. Doubtless in the gnarled heart of that connoisseur of defeats there pricked, for a moment, the thrill of the possibility of victory; his boat was first at the gun; the royal cutter slipped farther and farther behind. But, having learned to savor the futility of hope, doubtless he was not surprised when Lord Waring's White Heather slipped past his lee on the crest of a feathering wave and beat him across the line. Grimly he twisted his barnacle, fixed upon his features his professionally smile, repeated mechanically: "I will try again...
...accurately, we must endeavor to ascertain how much of truth or error it contains; for from history we learn that the common mistake of men has been to assume that of two opposing views one is absolutely right and the other wholly wrong, when in fact each had a savor of truth confused by exaggeration and error. From this cause have flowed political and religious struggles, resulting indeed in progress, but progress less complete and less durable than might have come from earnest effort on both sides to seek for what was right in each. In such cases the elements...