Word: relishingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time when the contributions were in large measure only acceptable themes prepared for college courses, there might have been good reason for the remark. But today anyone who does not unreasonably demand of undergraduates the perfection of established writers, ought to read the magazine with genuine relish...
...asking a 12% increase in wages) and the demands of the farmers and others for lower freight rates. At the same time there will be a substantial demand in the next Congress for the repeal of the Esch-Cummins Railroad Act. All these things the railways do not relish...
...American." His Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy made firm his reputation. Since then he has turned away from humor determinedly to write serious novels. Yet, principally, he is a lover of a good story. He will tell you the complicated plot of one of his yarns with the greatest relish. He enjoys the working out of detail; but he enjoys most of all the underlying grip which any good story must possess. No amount of artistry can make a story if it has not an emotional basis. There is a good vulgar word which describes the quality of which...
...more or less of an open secret in Washington, however, that the "bard-boiled" variety of Republican politicians privately do not relish the idea of having women help run the party. They regard women as more or less futile in politics, as meddlesome, temperamental, troublemaking. On this account they have not given women a larger voice in the party. Since 1920, the Democratic Party has been "coddling" women voters. It is said that a time has come when some action must be taken to save many women's votes for the Republican Party...
Almost weekly for the past six years the Harvard Alumni Bulletin has published letters from graduates who do not relish the seating arrangement at the annual Harvard-Yale football game...