Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Majors, lieutenant colonels and colonels trampled and jostled each other to get places in line. Japanese boys seemed to enjoy the spectacle as they opened packing cases of field sabers, the poor man's samurai sword, and stacked them for the issuing officers. Lieutenant colonels and colonels got an extra dividend: a pair of binoculars...
...tonight to hear Sabby Lewis was a motley one, comprising Harvard Freshmen, visiting musicians, sailors and soldiers, sub-debs, debs, and addebs, and the local jazz critics." Rank heresy it is to classify Harvard men and jazz critics as "motely," but the description is accurate. Black and white enjoy the same music, drink the same liquor, and share the same table, while inhibitions are checked with Claude at the door...
...closing volumes of the opus with the kind of intimate regret they feel for their own receding hairlines. But late-arrival readers who stroll in on the latest 559 pages will find that, though they may miss the average novel's cosy intimacy, they can easily learn to enjoy a cast of characters whose past is already in the public library...
Competition from a Cloud. Amid all this uproar the Admiral carried himself with aplomb; smiled, waved, saluted manfully, honestly appeared to enjoy himself. But it was evident that he would have been more at home at fleet headquarters than on the poop deck of an open automobile on Broadway...
Still in their minds was Adolf Hitler's triumphal visit to Paris in June, 1940. He nursed three ambitions: to sign the armistice at Compiègne, to visit Napoleon's tomb and to enjoy a performance of the Paris Opéra. Hitler and his entourage were solicitously shepherded around the Opéra by agile, gypsylike ballet master Serge Lifar and the massive pro-German Wagnerian soprano, Mme. Germaine Lubin. Next night the opera company put on a command performance...