Word: suavest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...triumphantly carried a captured broom from the fray. At week's end, the street cleaners scornfully rejected an offer of a 10,000-lire bonus, held out for 15,000, Palmiro Togliatti appeared in the Chamber of Deputies. He wore his suavest air and his famous blue, double-breasted serge suit. Said he piously: "Parliament is the center of democratic life and it is bound to a concept of tolerance between men who fight for their own ideas...
George Santayana, a wit once said, "believes that there is no God and that Mary is His mother." Last week the suavest living philosopher further compounded the paradox. At 82, he published The Idea of Christ in the Gospels (Scribner; $2.75), probably his most important book. It is also probably the most devout book ever written by an unbeliever: it suggests that' Santayana is a far better Christian, and scarcely less orthodox, than the vast majority of believers...
...remain so if for no other reason than to keep excess Argentine goods from Nazi Europe. Last week Britain announced that a diplomatic trade mission would tour the South American countries next month under 74-year-old Marquis Willingdon, former Viceroy of India, onetime cricket champion, reputedly the suavest and most able trouble shooter in the Empire. The British stressed the fact that their mission had been planned with collaboration and approval...