Word: enjoyments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...came back from overseas. Then there had been race riots all around the country; in Washington 2,000 troops had to be called out to restore order. The Negro soldier today, called upon to fight and on occasion to die for a democracy he is not fully allowed to enjoy, is still an unhappy and embittered...
Story of a Story of a Story. The Joseph books almost require a second reading. Readers will be likely to enjoy this big book only when they have looked back upon the immense pattern of the story, the array of characters-Joseph himself, his father, Jacob, his brothers, the scribes and stewards of Egypt, the courtly eunuch Potiphar, his sexually frustrated wife, the two dwarfs (in whom Mann personifies the principles of ineffectual goodness and potent evil), Pharaoh, the sermons of the bald-pated Egyptian priests, the astronomy, history, architecture, concepts of life & death-and the similarities and differences...
Clean Cruelty. In Boston, Paul F. Bucci won a divorce on grounds of cruelty when he testified that his wife kept their home too clean - "like a show place and I couldn't enjoy it." Arsenal. In Des Moines, Robert Butterworth was arrested by police and given a routine shakedown, which revealed that he was harboring on his person: 20 paint brushes, 60 pens and pencils, 17 combs, 50 ft. of rope, a quart of sauerkraut, 5 Ib. of sugar, 3 Ib. of wieners, a gross of used toothpicks, four flashlights, a hammer, six knives, a grindstone, a tube...
...small families. I am sure these scientists have never been where they had to eat mutton cooked British style. . . . Legislation should be passed to prevent these scientists from further experiments. They should spend their time developing a turkey with four legs and two breasts so that the boys can enjoy themselves after they come home. . . ." ¶Outside Bombay, U.S. soldiers asked the aging Mahatma Gandhi to sign their "short-snorter" bills. The proud little Hindu, only one month out of British incarceration, refused to sign an Indian bank note. But when the soldiers handed him Chinese money, he gladly squiggled...
...Bales, sister of his late mother. Editor Mathes looked in last week to see what they thought of the weekly column. Father Pyle's verdict: "Fine, I reckon the visitors can clip it." He referred to the fact that motorists are always dropping in to say how they enjoy Ernest (he is never "Ernie" at his old home). Father Pyle keeps a scrapbook of the daily columns from the Danville, Ill. Commercial-News; Aunt Mary clips hers from the Indianapolis Times...