Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brothers, though they defaulted recently on their maturing obligations to the House of Morgan, nevertheless enjoy the unique status of a going concern. Their maze of holding companies are based on paying properties such as the Chesapeake and Ohio and Nickel Plate Railroads, to name only the most promising. Whatever the merits of the case may be, it will be unfortunate in the extreme if the entire structure should be jeopardized by the forthcoming investigation since it can be anticipated that many thousands of innocent investors throughout the U. S. will suffer directly or indirectly. At any rate, if nothing...
...hove not seen "Forty-Second Street," "Gold-Diggers of 1933", or "Footlight Parade", you will enjoy the long, elaborate dance numbers, interpolated gags, and songs of "Wonder Bar". The plot, which is, of course, unimportant, includes an affair, a stabbing, a suicide, and a happy ending...
...young mother with her cowardly, dying Emperor, in 1860, when British and French troops marched on Peking. When Revolution blew Pu Yi, a six-year-old boy, off the throne of the Manchus in 1912, he was locked in the Winter Palace at Peiping. He did not enjoy Manchu pomp, preferred his tennis court and bicycle...
...basis of the New Deal." Budget Director Lewis Douglas, advocatus diaboli in the Administration, "is not a New Dealer at all. . . . As a watchdog of Government expenditure there could be no better man; as a maker of policy there could be no worse. He has long since ceased to enjoy Roosevelt's confidence...
They forget all that when they fail to see sense in his labors, and thus he can, without a twinge of conscience, urge them to come out for the next competition. The candidate can enjoy the taunts of editors, he can submit to their criticisms of his stories,--for some will chide and criticize--for inside he has felt the thrill of knowing some thing before the others, of meeting strange people in strange places...