Word: relishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shapiro realize that the Navy's ''Generals" are Admirals-in-the-making. If a table were built for their miniature war games, they would still get waistline exercise (which they relish) because the table would have to be as big as the linoleum floor on which they now play. The games are played to scale. Each 1-ft. square of linoleum represents one square mile of ocean, or at most ten square miles, according to the problem...
...most bankers hesitated to accept women's accounts because bank lobbies were usually crowded with male customers "among whom it is not agreeable for a lady to penetrate." Fifth Avenue Bank thought differently. It built a handsome parlor where ladies could "cut coupons and eat bonbons with equal relish." Off the parlor was a room furnished with manicuring scissors, hairpins, violet water, lavender salts, scented soap. In the coupon rooms the directors thoughtfully provided threaded needles. Black-bonneted dowagers drove their carriages up to the bank by the hundreds to enter their names in the big ledger book which...
Taking courage, she began, with the sober relish of childhood, to empty her raised skirt of rich, crumbling cake. Then she paused, frowning uneasily. Should she have stolen...
...company in Louisiana. For Huey Long has, practically speaking, no personal friends in official Washington. He used to go out sometimes with Senator Wheeler until Senator Wheeler decided he had better keep to quieter company. Although he is on speaking terms with every Senator, there are few members who relish talking to him. He has openly threatened to campaign in the next election against Senators Robinson, Harrison and Bailey. As a whole the Senate dislikes and fears...
...grand French finale, after the flogging, the "executioner" pulls the lever of the guillotine. The blade is so arranged that it stops with a gruesome thump just short of the flogged poule's neck, but excited tourists are found to relish the sadistic idea that it might fall all the way. Female spectators invariably scream. To prove that she has actually been flogged, the poule invites attention to the welts on her thrashed posterior, solicits tips...