Word: relishes
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Hardly had British Babbitts sighed their last sigh over this funereal news, served to them with an emotional relish, than The Morning Post, as it sometimes does, astounded all London by declaring that his late Lordship, in a codicil to the will, had made some strong, searching and uncomplimentary comments on a former colleague, believed to be none other than ex-Premier George...
...Rice, had sought trails from the Parima valley into the Orinoco country. He found none, but located a tribe of furtive, stunted "white" Indians, the Shiritanas, who exhibited neither fear nor curiosity at sight of the white men and their aircraft. The Shiritanas favored cocaine as a relish for their diet of plantains. They wore no clothing, carried bows strung with poisoned arrows, moved in and out between the trees "like jaguars," without making a sound or causing a rustle of the leaves...
...This mingling of society and those who have achieved something in the arts gives to English society a relish, a zest and a flavor which you can't get in New York, Philadelphia, Boston or Chicago...
...undergraduates when Professor East's program was first outlined. The misleading reports in various newspapers yesterday contributed to this resentment. To follow the establishment of a great and very materialistic Business School with a huge and very practical School or Dirt Farming is a development they do not relish. It now appears that the suggestion is not as wild and impractical as it at first appeared...
...voice and note of pervading human personality in which everybody had a share, was Copey? Meeting classmates whom you didn't know from Adam there was one way you could always make conversation, one platform on which you could always get together, and that was your huge relish of Copey's jokes. They passed around the college from tongue to tongue with the dizzy speed of village gossip. Copey's epigrams were, and are, the folklore of the college...