Word: spoiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holy War." The first opposing witness seemed more apt to help than hinder final passage. Henry Wallace fidgeted and squirmed as he charged that the State Department had kept mum on Russia's offer to end the Berlin blockade for fear it would spoil the treaty's chances. (No one thought to ask him why the Russians took part in such a deal.) Henry Wallace rattled on. The treaty, he cried, was "not an instrument of defense but a military alliance designed for aggression." Furthermore, it was a deal backed by U.S. big business, the Roman Catholic hierarchy...
Yale had its big Derby Day Saturday, and the varsity golf team didn't do much to spoil it. The squad lost to the Elis, 7 to 2, enabling the Blue to win the four-team Eastern Intercollegiates at New Haven...
...piece itself would be difficult to spoil. Kaufman and Hart's lampooning of Alexander Woolcott and a few of his friends is full of full-step jokes, slapstick, and broad humor. The cast that Directors Miller and Seaver have put around Woolley is adequate in all parts, really capable in only a few; but it played last night to the best of its abilities, muffed no lines, and kept the play going when The Man was offstage...
...well with his fellow actors, and was wretchedly sensitive to their gibes about his vanity. Garrick was indeed terribly vain-how could he help it? He had been praised enough to turn a man clear out of his mind. "More pains have been taken to spoil the fellow," said Sam Johnson, "than if he had been heir-apparent to the Emperor of India...
...poetry, well, that is something else again, quite above, beyond, and irrelevant of the man we came to know. How can you draw an analogy? Once created, the work of art does not depend upon its character; in fact, most creators' lives were so imperfect as to spoil our taste for their work were we to dwell upon them...