Word: delights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comfort observation cars with swivel chairs, smoking compartments, women's lounges, buffet kitchens. A quarter of a million passengers travel on it each month now, and factories ship a quarter of a million tons of goods by it monthly. With profits went further improvements. Last August employes with delight began burning all the company's wooden cars-because they had enough all steel rolling stock for their needs...
...literary 'lights' who have little or no respect for bodily culture especially delight in referring to the writer as 'Body-Loving Macfadden...
Utterly different from bold Sultan El Atrash is the mild spoken little Amir Abdullah of Transjordania, a contented British puppet whose chief delight is in breeding priceless Arab steeds. Last week the Amir dutifully hastened across the River Jordan by means of Allenby Bridge, successfully dissuaded some 300 of his subjects who had set out minded to wage plunder in Palestine...
...work-roughened hand of the steelmaker joined figuratively last week with the delicate hand of the jeweler in a dance of delight. The Senate Finance Committee recommended tariff changes on items of vital concern to each...
...Members of the Labor Party show a terrible disregard of the Sabbath," boomed Commissioner Archibald MacNeillage. "They delight in trampling it under foot. Remember that the American Ambassador, Mr. C. G. Dawes, was first received by our Labor Prime Minister on the Sabbath-day! So far as the world knows, the great interest of world peace has not been advanced one iota by that Sabbath-day meeting...