Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enjoy Herself Thoroughly...
...epicure but no fussbudget. Dr. Browne likes to entertain, likes his guests to enjoy themselves. But people who eat and drink too much or who cannot distinguish good food from fodder annoy him. He has threatened to give two of his friends a dinner consisting entirely of hot dogs, thinks they will notice nothing...
...James Couzens was the bookkeeper and later the business manager of our downtown coal office, and a very good manager too, and Mr. Ford dropped in to our home once in a while to talk over plans for the new organization. We enjoyed having him come. He was simple, quiet, sincere and earnest, and we all liked him. I remember once asking him to have evening dinner with us and serving him a huckleberry pie which I had made myself and which could not be cut. the crust was so tough. You see, I was a bride that year...
...prisoner "fell downstairs." But Lavine tells of other refinements: "I have seen a man beaten on the Adam's apple so that blood spurted from his mouth; I have seen another put in a dentist's chair and held there while the dentist, who seemed to enjoy his job, ground down a sound molar with a rough burr." Sometimes prisoners are threatened with death, shot at with blank cartridges...
...episodic character of the "footnotes." We may not have faith in the author's reasons for the supremacy of the East over occidental civilization, but we must admit that the book is easy, and altogether amusing, to read. For, after all, we need not take it seriously to enjoy...