Word: relishes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...plan was to be kept "confidential" until time to spring it on the President as a New Year's surprise. But the secret was only one day old when it fell into the hands of Mississippi's sly Senator Pat Harrison. With obvious relish he read on the Senate floor, sentence by sentence, from the "ludicrous" plan to "bedeck [the President's] brow with a coronet of praise and warm his heart with every complimentary expression." Also, he noted, the President's administrative assistant French Strother was once an editorial writer on World's Work...
...sets their bail at $10,000 or more. He it was who detained Jack Guzick for Federal trial, and Jack's brother Harry has also been indicted. Sample of Judge Lyle's talk: "I don't get a kick out of punishing people, but I do relish the opportunity of being a judge when two such men as you, living off vice and crime, fattening on blood-money, are brought before...
...Prof. Hillyer's followers--in fact all readers who are in touch with the meaningful currents of modern American verse will read and relish this volume...
...presents a vision of rabbit life as the Viennese author of Bambi sees it. As in Bambi, which was deer life poeticized, all the birds & beasts of the forest-and finally even the trees- converse freely together in a rather flat idiom, and the majority eat each other with relish and frequency. That, with the doings of sundry hunters, forms the background, foreground and action of the story...
...round resplendence of their portly verbiage, verbatim copies of the new Australian Customs Proclamation were read in Manhattan last week, with relish for their quaintness, with dismay for their portent...