Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is simply too much talk about rights and leisure, living wages, rewards . . . and too little about the obligation to work and to earn the things men need and will enjoy. It has actually come to pass that work is being generally regarded as a curse sent upon man rather than as a privilege and a duty. A certain portion of the citizenship has been counted off into a class called 'workers,' who are being made to believe, through much talking about them and their particular rights, that all other people are loafers and parasites. We have established...
...Ambassador Sackett to alter his speech, nor would they condone any one else so presuming. Whereupon Mr. Insull called again at the Embassy. Soon it was announced the speech would be delivered as written. Mr. Insull left Berlin for London precipitately, growling at newsgatherers: "I would like to enjoy my European holiday...
...university is endowed in order that those fortunate enough to enjoy the privilege may contribute to the welfare, and especially to the wisdom, of the whole people...
Spook House. For the multitude who enjoy detective stories and mystery plays in which ghastly white arms slide out of hidden panels, murdered bodies mysteriously disappear to the embarrassment of the burly and thwarted constabulary, Spook House provides staple entertainment. Its scene is laid in a mansion in Westchester County, N. Y., whose owner has been mysteriously slain and whose housekeeper creeps about presaging dire events. In addition to its standard equipment of revolvers, bowie knives and falling chandeliers, Spook House also contains one funny Irish policeman, one extremely competent and clever gunman, one beauteous female operative of the Department...
...unremarkable employe of a Manhattan telephone company suddenly finds himself rich through the demise of Uncle Marmaduke, surveying instrument tycoon. His first action is to take a "gyp" taxi (one charging more than the minimum fare) for a long ride. Then he rents an oversized apartment and proceeds to enjoy his life. The record of his adventures makes lively if not edifying reading, contains many a pungently satirical comment on U. S. urban and suburban life. Sometimes Authors Perelman and Reynolds call a spade by its trade name. Says a Manhattan newspaperman, complaining as is the custom of newspapermen: "Some...