Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armies. At this psychological moment Premier Mussolini had his son-in-law Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano announce Italy's adherence, with reservations, to the French Cabinet's round robin, not to aid either side in Spain (TIME, Aug. 17). This week Premier Blum was able to enjoy a "diplomatic victory" when the Soviet Union and Germany decreed arms embargoes. Always glad to come in on anything of a pacific nature, the For eign Ministers of Norway, Sweden, Den mark and Finland met in conference at Copenhagen, solemnly pledged Scandinavia not to ship arms to either the Whites...
...vely, "I did not intend to imply that Voltaire used these words verbatim and should be surprised if they are found in any of his works. They are rather a paraphrase of Voltaire s words in the essay on Tolerance: 'Think for yourselves, and let others enjoy the privilege...
From p. 42, TIME, Aug. 10: "Two athletes who recently competed in European track events as women were later transformed into men by sex operations." Do you really enjoy being inexact, indefinite and absurd all in one sentence...
First news service really to cope with the Revolution was Universal which soared over censorship with an airplane ferrying regularly from Madrid to Paris the dispatches of tough old Correspondent Karl H. von Wiegand, who appears to enjoy risking his life on everything from the Graf Zeppelin to Ethiopia (TIME, Jan. 27). Some 40 miles from crass and modern Madrid is mellow and historic old Toledo, and out to it went Hearst's von Wiegand escorted by Red Militia. Wrote he afterwards: "A militiaman with a .32 calibre, nickelplated revolver in his hand stood at my side...
...unregenerate, organized services in big cities with as many as 500 ushers, 1,000 choirsingers. In Philadelphia, they attracted 900,000 people in nine weeks. Said Moody: "It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ, and it is a pleasure the angels can't enjoy." But toward the end of his career this evangelist, who was no great speaker, no great theologian, discovered that most of the people who went to hear him were already church members. On Manhattan's East Side he experimented with an enfeebled Presbyterian church, but with all his talent...