Word: relishingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth to the scribes of this journal it is a matter of great debate and discouragement to answer the question which doth appear to us when we reflect upon how many there be among us who have not learned to relish the fruits of knowledge. 'How dull,' saith the uncultured as, yawning and stretching they emerge from the halls of learning. Wherefore must we abide these stupid dispensers of insipid facts. They interest us not with their long dissertations upon the doings of kings...
William Beebe himself would relish Petunia and wish that "all the potatoes on Christendom be magically transformed" as suggested by his namesake, Mr. Boobie. Nor could he nor his admirers take offense at this delicate demonstration of the pathetic fallacy. "Sketches in Pleasant Russia" is more in the undergraduate vein of burlesque, but the dialogue and dialect are good. "Prison Cruelty" is well named, such things should be avoided even in the Atlantic. And the dullness of the portraits of American Women is emphasized rather than enlivened, although its style is admittedly well executed...
...forty-eight hour week, minimum wage, and the further prohibition of night work for women, has proved a great surprise to those welfare workers who have been most active in the movement. The Women's Equal Opportunity League of New York has declared that the sex does not relish nor need "the so-called 'protection' of discriminatory legislation". A committee of working women appeared at Albany and urged the repeal of the laws prohibiting night work, asserting that they can stand the strain as well...
...about the Oedipus complex. Or what is it called when the ingrowing bond is between mother and daughter? The Medea complex? Well, no matter--for, after all, the common, unread run of us can relish the new piece at the Little Theatre and, as its somewhat uncomfortable story develops, will wriggle and chuckle with many a spasm of recognition...