Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roosevelt shot it back with the comment: "That is mighty sweet of you, and if I were a Frenchman I would kiss you on both cheeks. As an American, all I can say is 'you are a very good...
...schmalz-artist requires more belief, more wishful thinking on the part of his audience, than better artists would dare require. Reality is as much his deadly enemy as it is the superior artist's most difficult love affair. At his best, Saroyan is a wonderfully sweet-natured, witty and beguiling kind of Christian anarchist, and so apt a lyrical magician that the magic designed for one medium still works in another. At his worst, he is one of the world's ranking contenders for brassy, self-pitying, arty mawkishness, for idealism with an eye to the main chance...
Sonata and Chopin waltzes. As usual, she put on a good show by changing dresses three times (lilac for Liszt, black for Bach, green for Chopin). Her encore, Home, Sweet Home, had them stamping their feet...
...Sweet Words. In San Francisco, newspaper readers got their first whiff of a scented sales stunt. The Emporium department store and Bombi Perfumer, Inc. had printers mix Black Magic perfume with the ink for their full-page perfume ads. Result: Emporium sold out its stock of Black Magic in less than...
...little of a slave that he scarcely needs to use his hands and jaws and legs. The more "neutral" and "uniform" a product is, the more comfortable he finds it. The 19th Century gardener grew 30 kinds of apples in his orchard, ranging in taste from bitter to sweet. Today, "the large red apple" caters to the public love of all that is "sweet, smooth, and outwardly appealing." Bread, which was once the crusty staff of life, is now "half-masticated . . . before reaching the mouth," and caters to the taste which prefers fruit juice to fruit, chopped meat...