Word: relishingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no question that Novelist Caldwell knows how to serve up her gossip with relish. And in the process, she occasionally produces the same kind of little home truths that a good soap-opera scripter turns out. Readers who find it worthwhile to wade through 496 pages of Novelist Caldwell's fast typing in search of such finds will undoubtedly set sales of The Balance Wheel to rising as merrily as those of its twelve predecessors...
...Justice William O. Douglas told his own off-the-bench story in Of Men and Mountains, one of the most satisfying self-portraits of the year. From another century and another kind of man came Boswell's London Journal, a gamy confession that many readers tackled with more relish than they ever had for Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson...
Those who traveled less than Casanova embellished their drawing rooms with fragile fancies: a clock mounted on a chariot drawn along the mantelpiece by galloping gilt horses, or a monkey with a lorgnette in one hand and a tiny cigar in the other, smoking with bestial relish, or a dueling pistol which, with a pull of the trigger, released a tiny singing bird...
...visitor might wonder just what keeps the P.B.H. men this side of a nervous breakdown. Running a three-ring circus is a challenge, but they all seem to relish...
...Devout Sex. Far from being an "enthusiast" himself, Msgr. Knox is sometimes unable to suppress a faint shudder at the uncouth excesses with which his subject compels him to deal. But for the most part he treats his material with the warm antiquarian relish of a jurist whose hobby is delving into the idiosyncrasies of safecrackers...