Word: relishes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, Temugin settles down to a new life. And greatly does he relish the pleasure of hunt and feast and woman. For the sake of variety he conducts an occasional military expedition, and Ung is so well satisfied with his ward's masterly strategy that he gives him his daughter as second wife. At this point, Temugin orders a census of his family. A eunuch (fad newly imported from Turkey) reviews 18 years of hearty domesticity, reports 84 women including the two wives, 178 children, of whom 65 have died, leaving a net increment...
...insistence upon his own boredom with the matter in hand and indifference to the curiosity of his reader, Author Wylie tells his age-old story with gusto, relish, and a naïve zest in his discovery of the differences between two successive generations. Wise enough, perhaps, to know that there is no answer, he offers none...
...heard him speak until last fall when I was taken along-for-the-ride to a rally of Republican women at Columbus; and since that time I've felt like starting out on a crusade-a futile one, probably, for I must admit that the girls seemed to relish such examples of bawling calf oratory as (I quote impressionistically) : "that lovable, that noble, that fooo-oully maligned man, Warren G. Harding"; "the gloooorious wooomanhood of the State of Ahia"; etc., much, too much, etc. If, as Pastor Rudy praises, the Senator showed "unusual intellectual capacity as a mere...
...cold relish for cruelty and a quiet gusto for torture are not untypical of the Celestial race. Who has traversed China without seeing children play, unreproved, the game of cat tails. Two or more stray cats are caught, tied together by their extremities, hung over a convenient limb, and left to claw out each others' eyes and innards. Meanwhile the passing mandarin smiles and coolies stop to widen yellow grins. Thus loom the ingrained traits which made it possible, last week, for certain Chinese irregulars of heathen persuasion to massacre with fiendish cruelty the Roman Catholic natives who once...
...three years ago in a course in advanced psychology at the suggestion of students, and without the knowledge of the higher college authorities. But the news added meat to the theories of persons already convinced of the seditious and iconoclastic tendencies of the colleges, and it was consumed with relish. The recent tragedy, in some inexplicable way, was held to confirm such opinions...