Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modest little musical for double bills. By a rare cinematic accident, it successfully refutes its sales bracket. Its gags and tunes are good, its patter fast. Above all it has the unprefigured value which is generated in a musical when most of the participants are young enough to enjoy their opportunities with relish and when the proceedings are not grave enough to numb them with anxiety concerning the results...
...privileged to enjoy annual salaries or monthly remittances from the family, sometimes forget that the man who earns his living by his trade and the sweat of his body as a rule is paid only when he works, and he gets almost as hungry during December and January as he does in July and August. So do his wife and children...
...since the Christian era, and to cut the full course in the Greek and Roman art to its half-course ranking. Thus it would be possible for the outsider to take in the whole range of art in a year and a half and for the concentrator to enjoy a fuller survey of the territory to be covered in his first year in the field...
Eccentric Harry Kendall Thaw, 67, who killed Stanford White for seducing his wife, turned up in Berlin after eye treatments in Paris, regretted that he could not enjoy "the best blondes and beer in the world." Said he: "I wish I could see them better. The blondes, I mean. Going to a nightclub when you can't see is like going for a ride on a scenic railway during an eclipse...
...desire to enjoy the blessings of a perfect love was exceeded only by the keenest ambition to become recognized as a great artist. All through her brief career she held these goals before her, willing to sacrifice everything to acquire them. Yet she died at the age of twenty-four, having gone only a short way on her ambitious and difficult journey. Gladstone read her diary and recognized her as "a true genius, one of these abnormal beings who seem to be born into the world once or twice in a generation...