Word: relishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Facts are that since His Majesty's pneumonia George V has seemed to relish only two things, oysters and sweet puddings, of which he eats as much as his doctors let him. In Edward of Wales farsighted Chummy sees a future King-Emperor even less likely to appreciate his art. The favorite dinner of H. R. H. consists of cold meat & whiskey-soda-a menu sometimes expanded by cabbage or some other vegetable, always boiled. Unlike his fat, great-eating grandfather, and unlike his father, Edward of Wales detests sweets. But both George V and his son prefer whiskey...
Hands Off. President Hoover has no relish for a fight in which he is doomed to defeat. Last week he was lying low, having abandoned all efforts to try to stop the Legion's stampede for the Bonus. He has a last line of defense?the veto. Secretary of War Hurley had announced he would go to the Portland convention, make a speech if they would let him. Last week the White House disavowed him as its spokesman...
...curious to know why he states this with so much apparent relish. Out & out pacifists might rejoice in refraining from waving the American flag, and if this is Macon's attitude, why name a fighting airship of the U. S. Navy after...
...loss and its bankers shoved out Gen eral Manager Carroll, replacing him with efficiency experts. With a sad expression on his face he hung around the piers, re fused to go with any other company. Soon Gloucester's fishermen were slapping their thighs and squirting tobacco juice with relish at the goings-on in Gorton-Pew. The efficiency experts drew up a schedule of arrivals and departures for the fleet, overlooking the matter of tides, fogs, running seas. They even set the number of fish each vessel should return with. In two years they lost...
...Vineland, N. J., would not send their children to public school. Mrs. Smart taught small Arthur, 9, and Elizabeth, 7, while Citizen Smart looked on in approval. Last month local school officials took steps to compel them to send the children to school (TIME, May 2). Much to their relish, the Smarts were interviewed and photographed by metropolitan newshawks. Last week they were again in the news. The time had come for Mrs. Smart to prove publicly her fitness to teach...