Word: relishes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assigned to the China-India-Burma theater, Rothenberg spent the summer snaring unclaimed feathered wanderers and retaining the bones. "There was a good feed in it occasionally," he recalls with relish...
Arthur Horner himself, with a grimness he almost seemed to relish, told 50,000 of his men at Morpeth last week: "We shall be five million tons short of our requirements by the end of 1947." Mrs. Ivy Lee, a young London matron, understood what that meant. She said: "A good thing I didn't give away my little boy's push pram-looks like coming in handy again this winter, if we have to queue for a few pounds down at the old coal wharf...
...Yale Divinity School. For two years he had a parish at Graniteville, Vt., for four at Haverhill, Mass. But, though he has a wife and three children at South Ryegate, Vt., it will suit him fine if he never has another "civilized" parish. He doesn't particularly relish the black flies, mosquitoes and winter temperatures-but he prefers them to elders, sewing circles and church suppers...
...found that all had not been pleasant between the Craigies. She had a lover whom she had been waiting for all her life, and her husband had been getting letters from an illegitimate daughter. When Oliver Wendell Holmes discovered the undercurrents in the mansion, he exclaimed with relish, "What a household! Mrs. Craigie hiding her letters in the attic and Mr. Craigie hiding his letters in the cellar!" When Longfellow married, his father-in-law bought the house for the couple, and soon their home became a great social and literary center. Among the visitors were Emerson, Louis Phillippe...
...story. Comic relief and pathos are added by an acidulous grandma, a neurasthenic maiden aunt and an old wartime friend of Frank's (Sterling Holloway). But the real meat of This Happy Breed is in the many plotless little human studies which Coward writes with such relish-Frank's advice to his bridegroom son, delivered in the privacy of the bathroom, just before the wedding; snappish, jagged family quarrels; a touching drunk scene between the two aging ex-soldiers; Ethel's silent, terrible way of absorbing bitter news. The real hero of the film is time...