Word: savors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their races, turn at once with great and spontaneous enthusiasm to the culinary preferences of their adopted land. So long as the democratic spirit of the cafeteria reduces all classes to the lowly and patient condition of waiters upon the unhurried gods of the kitchen, so long as the savor of corned beef and cabbage waters the mouths of the multitude, so long the institutions and faiths of America will go on, uninjured by the inroads of French, Italian, or Russian menus or even by the jargonized Americanese of the aspiring Greek...
...natural, although the device of destroying a keepsake, used by the author to conclude this episode in a girl's character, is itself somewhat frayed and trivial. "The Kandhi Light", told in dialect by Kendall B. Foss, characterizes an old sailor and relates one of his adventures with some savor of reality. In "Outcast", by Kimball Gray, is to be found perhaps the best touch in the prose of the present number. The author sees a girl carrying a baby as she struggles up the gangplank of a steamer freighted in part with immigrants for deportation. The baby dies...
Those who do not like the savor of the trial remarked that eventually even the records of the court will perish from decomposition if not from fire...
...drastic ultimatum to Egypt, Britain made it evident that she intends to govern and stay in Egypt and prevent the Sudan from retrogressing into the savagery from which Lord Kitchener rescued it in 1898. The terms savor, some opinion has claimed, of opportunism. This may be true, but Britain had evidently reached the end of her patience. The murder of the Sirdar unfortunately precipitated a situation that was found, in any event, to be the inevitable corollary of organized propaganda against Britain in Egypt and the Sudan, which, despite warnings from Britain, has never been discouraged by the Egyptian Government...
Attention to mannerisms goes to extremes in "The Hobgoblins Defeated" by John Finley Jr. There is a savor of Max Beerbohm in the persiflage, but parts of the story, especially at the beginning, are so involved in construction as to be clumsy, and at the close I felt imposed upon, as if I had been listening too long to a young man enjoying his own cleverness in soliloquy at my fireside...