Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cranked out his sweet-&-sour rhymes for 25 years, not even pausing at the death of his son (1942) and his first wife (in childbirth, two years later). Lately he seemed to tire of his monotonous Muse; in January Donna Wahnna wrote...
...people's minds-and in their hearts-is more important in determining the fateful future than what goes on in laboratories and production centers. . . . There are no supermen, all-wise, to solve these problems for us. [But] an informed and understanding people will [not] be taken in by sweet talk, or scared by shadows, or stumble-or be pushed-into some desperate finality. There is no substitute, no good substitute, for the common-sense judgment of a whole people...
...magazine illustrating and taught art. Nowadays he makes a modest living from his painting, but it is his early pictures that sell. Sloan himself looks back on his "Ashcan" oils with an equal mixture of nostalgia and pride. "Young people won't realize," he says mildly, "how sweet . . . sweet and sad Manhattan was before Prohibition. The new skyline looks like a broken comb. We're the dirt between the teeth, unfortunately. And who wants to paint a street all strewn with automobiles...
...Ramdas set fire to the ghi-soaked wood with the charcoal he had carried, smoldering, all the way from Birla House. Nehru, Patel, Governor General Earl Mountbatten and his Lady threw last rose petals on the pyre as the white smoke of sweet-smelling sandalwood rose against the scarlet evening sun. From nearly a million throats came the chant, half in mourning, half in triumph: "Mahatma Gandhi amar ho gae!"-"Mahatma Gandhi has become immortal...
Miss Li Chien-hung (TIME, Nov. 10) was one candidate who tasted both the sweet and the sour. Slim, husky-voiced Miss Li, 31, a Kuomintang member for only two years, was popular for helping families in her Nanking ward to get relief and jobs. But her rival, Miss Liu Heng-ching, a dignified veteran of 20 years in the Kuomintang, pressed the claims of long and dutiful party service. What to do? Miss Liu proposed a deal: if popular Miss Li withdrew, veteran Miss Liu would serve only half her three-year term, resign in favor of Miss...