Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only do the fortunate inhabitants of the cow-breeding strawberry-raising island of Guernsey, ancient fief of the Dukes of Normandy, enjoy the finest climate and the lowest taxes in the British Isles, but they have their own special coins and measures (eight doubles: one penny; one vergee: 0.4 acres) and their own archaic and particular means of legal redress. The method of obtain.ng a civil injunction in Guernsey is curious, simple and direct, consists in raising a Clameur de Haro in the presence of witnesses...
...justifies the title by leading the chorus, all attired in crimson riding habits, through a maze of green hurdles. And there is Ruth Etting, a pensive blonde who sings one of the best tunes Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart ever wrote ? "I Still Believe You.'' Children will hugely enjoy Simple Simon; their elders may profitably join them...
...years have followed the fortunes of Mutt & Jeff and the Katzenjammer Kids are naturally agog to discover what will happen to Amos 'n' Andy in their next radio installment. People who have roared mightily at Moran & Mack and the late great Bert Williams are naturally prepared to enjoy the Negroid inflection and viewpoint of Amos 'n' Andy. Their dialogs describe the homely adventures of two Negro boys (Amos is high-voiced, nervous; Andy is deep-voiced, domineering) who operate, with one cab, the "Fresh-Air Taxicab Company of America, Incorpulated." They lead humble love-lives...
...brings some measure of undergraduate approval, President Angell spoke specifically. Until the plan gets fully under way, freshmen will use the buildings as dormitories. Conflict between the House Plan and fraternities will "be dealt with sympathetically." Generous provisions of Mr. Harkness's gift will enable impecunious boys "to enjoy the full advantages of the quadrangles without embarrassment...
Sitting on the side lines, I like to watch the various battles. I only wish that Mark Twain were still alive, so that he could enjoy the spectacle, too. And what a wonderful book he could have written in his slyly satirical manner...