Word: relish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stanford and at Vallejo (Calif.) High School which last year re-christened its gridiron Corbus Field for the alumnus whose cleated shoes had honored it. When he entered Stanford in 1930 Bill Corbus, big, blond and handsome, had to submit to the nickname "Baby Face." With even less relish he heard sportwriters call him "Baby Faced Assassin." He achieved scholastic standing (in economics) far above average. Last year he was elected president of the student body, was named right guard on Grantland Rice's All-American. Quiet, unassuming, no chesty campus hero, he worked as hard as the rawest...
...Graham" (Lou Goldberg) tells his gaudy tale in gaudy journalese; his book is not written for the ages but for Hollywood. Knowing Denverites may amuse themselves in sorting fact from fancy; others who enjoy cinema previews or who like their scandal freshly killed and not too well-done, should relish The Great...
Astute little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss sipped his cup of rich Viennese chocolate with special relish one morning last week. He had just played off against Germany three great powers, Britain, France and Italy...
...Vicente Gomez took small interest last week in the Fourth World Scout Jamboree (see p. 18). Four years ago he offered $10,000 to the first Venezuelan Boy Scout who should return from a walk to every South American country. Last week the seamy featured old President received with relish the news that Scout Carlos Arturo Zembrana is still walking still the favorite to win the $10,000 prize. Aged 11, Scout Zembrana left Venezuela in 1929, tramped across the wilds of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the extreme northern tip of Chile, the jungles of embattled Bolivia and Paraguay...
Your Cinema review, issue of July 3, of Hold Your Man says that Eddie and Ruby were married by an elderly colored clergyman. The picture shows the marriage performed by a white minister. By the way, Negroes do not relish the use of the word "colored." It rather is a slur-as indicating a mixture of white and Negro blood, and therefore not to be desired, either way. In our town, county and State, there is no race problem. The lines are clearly and unmistakably defined, and there is no attempt, nor I believe desire, to cross that line...