Word: relishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a Communist "collaborator," that he had carried off State Department documents for Chambers and another underground courier named David Carpenter. He had delivered about 400 of them. But he swore that none of the Government's exhibits had been among them. Cross questioned him closely and with relish about "stealing" official papers, a word which obviously displeased Wadleigh, then led him to an examination of the 54 documents in evidence. After a long period of questioning and paper-shuffling, Lawyer Cross drew forth an admission calculated to raise a doubt in the jury's mind: Wadleigh said...
...last achieve their dearest ambition-to gate-crash high society in Cuna-Cuna City. Under its dancing, smiling surface run strong undercurrents of human sadness and disillusion. It is Firbank at his best. ¶Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926). In which Catholic Author Firbank dwells with orgiastic relish on the sexual practices of a worldly Spanish churchman. Not for family reading. ¶The Artificial Princess (1934) returns to the favored Firbank theme of palace love; but its fluffy, frail ingredients, languidly mixed and half-heartedly baked, only give it the hurt look of a tortured meringue...
...specific, there are certain personalities in the Boston area, soon to be of college entrance age, who would do miracles for Harvard football. Perhaps they would relish the opportunities of study on the banks of the Charles, and Radcliffe in the springtime on the banks of the Charles...
...with his best. It has the excitement of a good spy thriller, but as in all Charles Williams' stories the figures in the chases and counter-chases are the fleshed souls of men & women, some striving to be saved, some bent on being damned. Not all readers will relish Williams' metaphysics, or find his book easy to follow. But most will know they have been in the company of a writer to remember...
...wearing monocles.When Segurola put on his top hat, he was showered with white dust: Caruso had thoughtfully poured flour into it. Baritone Scotti squirted seltzer water in Alda's face. Instead of nibbling at stage fare in the cafe scene of Act II, they sat down with relish to a chicken dinner-and more champagne -ordered in from an Italian restaurant...