Word: relished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eric Linklater, in whose latest novel these uncommon scenes appear, explains with grinning relish. A Scotsman to the brisket, Linklater believes that English M.P.s have treated his native land so stingily that it is time they got a comeuppance. A onetime chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, Linklater also knows his classical drama and how to make it a vehicle for his grouch. Laxdale Hall is a modern variation on Euripides' Bacchanals, in which sobersided King Pentheus is first treed, then torn apart by furious women because he has forbidden them to join in the orgies of the wine...
...Texas' late Senator Morris (18th Amendment) Sheppard and Calvin Coolidge. Once, at a White House breakfast, Sheppard was surprised to find the Coolidge collie barking at his elbow. Coolidge explained that the dog wanted Sheppard's sausage, so the Senator gave it to him. Concluded Truman with relish: "And, what's more, Sheppard didn't get another sausage...
...questions rained down, Truman tossed off his answers with obvious relish...
Readers of the early season scrimmage of the Great Ideas may relish this anecdote. Intending to be facetious, I once asked an ardent indexer whether God had been included in the index. His prompt, patronizing and humorless reply stunned me: "Yes, but we've subdivided...
...answer. From an unnoticed back bench on the Tory side of the House came the clear, ringing challenge of a bright-eyed newcomer. He was studious Iain Macleod, 38, a Tory "backroom boy." Macleod startled the House with his opening remarks: "I want to deal closely and with relish with the vulgar, crude and intemperate speech to which the House of Commons has just listened." Then slowly, piece by piece, quoting Labor's own statements, he demolished Bevan's rhetoric. When Bevan, cut to the quick, jumped to his feet in protest, Macleod softly answered: "The right honorable...