Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul-Henri was," says Marie Spaak, "the easiest of my children to handle, so sweet and affectionate. He still is. When he takes me to dinner he comes hunting for me in the Senate, asking everyone, 'Avez-vous vu Maman...
Like the charmed rats of Hamelin, Americans scamper to follow the compelling advertisement, convinced that it would be disloyal and remiss not to "remember mother," assured that one remembers best with cash, once a year. The business index will rise perceptibly, the sweet smell of roses and caramels will steep the land, but on Monday mother will be back at the washtub or Garden Club, bored, neglected, and tired...
Their prayer started traditionally enough: "We come with fragrant flowers and sweet wine to pray. . . ." Then came the political snapper: "No matter how American imperialism exerts itself, the children of the Yellow Emperor will unite under the Chinese Communist Party and . . . thoroughly exterminate all of Chiang Kai-shek's gangsters." They wished Huang Ti's posterity "10,000 years, 1,000 autumns...
...That the Bible teaches "a single, clear, ethical code, applicable to everyday living . . . although they had read how Noah pleased God with the odor of a sweet-smelling sacrifice and how Micah cried out against [burnt offerings]. ... It was as though Jesus had never said: 'Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time . . . but I say unto...
...Evans took over for the final ecstatic burble: "Obviously tired but wearing the thrill of her Indian adoption like a happy mantle, Shining Star quietly slipped away to her tepee, there to dream of cool waters, soft winds, and the Great Manitou who guards the sleep of all sweet maidens who believe...