Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Internal Revenue at New York City, entertained elephantine Sandor Szabo, Hungarian wrestling "champion." Reported the New Milford Times: "Mr. Szabo did much woodchopping at the Edwards place?in fact there are some who say that 'Big Bill' was short of kindlings and therefore invited one who could and did enjoy chopping. We however, do not believe this vile rumor." The Times did believe and report that "Big Bill" and Szabo engaged in a friendly bout on the lake shore, that "Big Bill" hurled the wrestler into the water before being downed...
...Madness is a less sordid variation of the incident. The Captain (Hans Albers) is in charge of the one-boat Navy of a place called Pontenero (to rhyme with "zero" and "hero"). When he meets the Queen of Pontenero (Sari Maritza) he mistakes her for a demimondaine and they enjoy a romance. When it becomes known that the Captain has gambled away the ship's payroll, he makes a neat dive over the side and gaily dog-paddles toward a steamer bound for Honolulu. The queen has arranged to get the crew their money. When it arrives, she orders...
...people talk of serious matters obliquely; the brilliance of their conversation is scintillating and altogether impossible, but it makes good reading. Mr. Swain's "Young Emile Chadwick" presents a variation or two on the O. Henry formula, and the reader struggles to accept the formula so that he may enjoy the effect...
...intend to enroll in the graduate schools is ten percent greater than that of the class of 1926 who remained for post-graduate study. If as many as possible of these men would devote their time and money to travel with a serious purpose, the argument runs, America would enjoy the same beneficial results which manifest themselves in the English and the Scandinavians, the two most traveled and most enlightened races of Europe...
...this situation, closely bordering on anarchy by popular and military consent, the Imperial House "unchanged since ages eternal" continued last week to enjoy universal Japanese respect, except from the Communists who since 1928 have been fiercely hounded by Japan's police until they and their slogans have almost dropped from public notice...