Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only stony stares greeted U. S. lace importers, who argued in behalf of a tariff reduction. They pointed out that devaluation of the dollar had in effect nearly doubled the barrier to French imports. If the 90% duty on French lace were halved, domestic lace-makers would still enjoy more protection than they did three years ago. What the trade pact negotiators must ponder is whether concessions to France, where lace-making is a major industry employing 50,000 people, will gain markets for enough U. S. exports to compensate for unemployment created in the U. S. lace industry...
...appreciate the serious task devolving upon the general government at this time, but the constitutional powers which have been sufficient to deal with the great emergencies of the past we still enjoy unimpaired. The decision of the Supreme Court curtails them in no respect...
...small sphere. She tells Cincinnati matrons when to give their parties. As a reporter, she is rarely seen taking notes but no detail escapes her. The Enquirer ran 29½ columns of society news on the festival last week. Mr. Benjamin W. Lamson "deserted his own box party to enjoy Miss Ferguson's charming wit and humor." Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott of Dayton "wore her pearls and diamonds in her ears." "Miss Mary Elizabeth Rogan was a dainty charmer. . . ." Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson "was, as always, very distinguee." Mrs. Henry Probasco was "very Grande Dame." The Hinkle...
...Henry VIII by the Pope); Emperor of India, living symbol and standard bearer of white civilization ruling over Asiatic peoples. But in life he was above all a gourmet; the symbol of the pleasures of life; dictator of modes; regulating all other ways of life to the way of enjoyment, and living to enjoy while living; beloved by the grand mondc of the Continent; inspiration of the chefs of the Savoy Hotel in creating the justly famous poulard Edward...
...chatter around him. He felt "an amazement, tempered with hatred, at the volubility of the human race, the infamous readiness with which people strung words together into half-articulate speech without having the slightest inkling of the essential meaning of things." Richard's mother was just beginning to enjoy her widowhood: her husband had been a sinister "nighttime" character, who would not go for a walk on a spring day because "the world burns inside us, not outside us." The father's queerness had taken various forms in his children: Emilie had left home to pleasure, not better...