Word: smothers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for some excellent art work and a fine bright cover, the rest of the Advocate shades off into mediocrity. There is another long anecdote about Europe by Hona Karmel called "The Old Ignacy." Her material is rich, but she has a nasty habit of letting her writing smother it; when Miss Karmel talks about coffee, she calls it a "black fragrant fluid." Andrew Zimmer's introspective and involved story of a boy who has lost his father, "Sideways to the Sun," topples of its own length. A section of Hall's introduction to the new Advocate Anthology is straight...
...anxious to be off for home and the hustings. But nobody dared leave until Harry Truman had made up his mind whether to veto of sign the anti-Communist bill; unless Congress is in session ten days after the bill goes to the White House, the President could quietly smother it to death with a pocket veto.† Between fidgets last week, the Congress...
There is little doubt that Author Paul loves the Rue de la Huchette, its food, its people and its liveliness. His weakness as a reporter of it is not so much his frank bias as his congenital tendency to smother his account in cuteness. Springtime is Paris seen through the bottom of a wineglass...
...Says he: "I am not overreaching myself; I think I'll hit 50 home runs this year." He also says flatly that Cleveland will win the pennant. If it does, 25-year-old Flip Rosen's light but authoritative 33-oz. bat (25 homers) and his smother-the-ball fielding will be two good reasons...
...boat for the President, and because a bunch of Missouri Democrats couldn't take it, don't blame it on the ship. (Seventeen big ships hove to in the North Atlantic that week.) Any sailor knows that a ship has to roll or drown in her own smother...