Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warns them against being overoptimistic: "Some of you pilgrims think when you're buried that you'll wake up as white folks on Resurrection Day. Let me straighten you out on that right now. If you plant an Irish pertater, you don't get no sweet pertater vine. When God plants a colored boy, he ain't countin' on diggin' up a white feller...
...similar books by two totally dissimilar writers - Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' best-selling Cross Creek ($2.50), Essayist E. B. White's sane and salty One Man's Meat ($2.50). Ludwig Bemelmans, a first-rate light storyteller with a surpassing light style, criticized human foibles with a sweet smile in I Love You, I Love You, I Love You ($2.50). But it remained for Humorist James Thurber, reporting on A.D. 1942!s general state of affairs in My World - And Welcome to It ($2.50), to pay the year off most succinctly and devastatingly. "Man," he said, "would seem...
...army means regimentation, from the first crack of dawn till the last detail of the day is done. We get a sweet picture of how the babes will go for that. The average girl will probably be so bored after her first few weeks in the forces that upon her first leave she will cloister herself in some nearby forest and cry a half dozen GI hankies into a complete state of saturation...
Anne Putnam is just what the author ordered in the title role of Mashenka. She's sweet without being sloppy, and sparkling without the dangers of effervescing. Igor Gorsky, as her secret love, roars through the part of an enthusiastic Soviet geologist, Leonid, apparently bent on getting the Five-Year Plan through before the rains...
...Year's Day. Georgia Tech is reasonably near New Orleans. Boston College, only other big-time college team still undefeated and untied, is at least not at the opposite end of the continent. Though B.C. has one more game (against Holy Cross), Sugar Bowl promoters have already whispered sweet nothings into the ears of Coach Denny Myers...