Word: enjoying
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...novelist began by emphatically vetoing the prevalent idea that the traditional advice of literary men to ambitious writers is to avoid such a career. "If you wish to write, do so," he said. "If you fail you will soon find out, and in all events you will enjoy yourself...
...return trip the squad will enjoy the "Greenwich Village Follies" in New York on Saturday night, and will board the train for Boston on Sunday morning...
...Katharina's temper. From the time he swaggers into Padua with his father's fortune "happily to wine and thrive" to his winning of the wager at Lucentio's banquet, the audience feels the enthusiastic optimism and tough-skinned common sense of this wife tamer. He seems to enjoy so thoroughly his own sermons and bombasts that we can not but enjoy them with...
...cover the burlesques run true to best form. The complete number, indeed, is successfully a pseudo-Cosmopolitan all over--except, perhaps, for the advertising pages. The page most certain to hand Lampy customers a laugh is its rotogravure of "A Parisian Beauty." Mr. Wilson himself, we are sure, would enjoy it for light reading in his current convalescence...
Naturally, the Weed is not in exactly the same class as His Majesty, King Alcohol. Although a few of us enjoy life. as well and save considerable good money by omitting tobacco from our menu, the overwhelming majority offer incense to the God of Nicotine. But to attack the W. C. T. U. or any other organization for attempting to curtail the use of this rather unnecessary and not universally worshipped vegetable, seems to me somewhat like shutting the doors and windows of a smoke-filled room while some one else is trying to ventilate...