Word: relishingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Choosing words carefully, avoiding internal politics, yet speaking with his wonted fire, Comrade Trotzky said: "The lands bordering the Pacific will be the scene of the world's most important events. Europe does not relish this any more than it relishes the fact that the United States has become the most dominant power in the world, expanding northward through Canada and southward through Nicaragua...
...leisure he smoked a pipe of tobacco. His sport was spider-fighting. Hunting out two aggressive spiders, he would embattle them and watch with glee through a magnifying glass. Or, feeling more domestic, he would catch flies, throw them into the web of his first-string fighter and relish the savage banquet. Drawing was his polite accomplishment, an amateur skilled in cartooning his friends' oddities with a pencil. Struck by the refractory habits of light, he composed "A Treatise on the Rainbow...
...Pearl of Great Price. Released, at last, from an eight year entanglement with red tape, The Pearl of Great Price reveals itself in the theatre, a cheaply glamorous morality spectacle. The Pearl, symbol of maidenhood, is sole heritage of a pulchritudinous orphan, Pilgrim. With zest, relish and a cast of two hundred, the production smacks its lips over the struggles of Greed, Idle Rich, Lust, Shame and the rest, to possess the dainty maiden's treasure. In the course of an artful procession of temptations, Pilgrim, after standing naked for one coy half-second, despatches Lust. The court returns...
...interest in the arts. Now their bread has come back cake. This Woman Business is the cake. It may be baked too brown, it may even need its hair sugared. Perliaps it needs to be taken with a grain of salt as well; but Boston ate it with relish and cried 'More...
...seek effortless entertainment are warned to avoid The Three Sisters. So consistently is the mood of restless boredom maintained on the stage that it will surely transmit itself to any half-asleep onlooker. To those who can emerge from the day's fracas of commercial activity with relish for intellectual adventure, The Three Sisters will prove one of the season's delights...