Word: relishingly
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...Ernst Lubitsch's new farce, a very comic idea made acutely uncomfortable because the locale of the picture is Warsaw during the German occupation of Poland. In "Ninotchka" Lubitsch ribbed the foibles of the Russians and their Five Year Plan with great humor and relish. But the same formula is not successful in the present picture, for there is something too agonizingly real about the military genius of the Germans in the past three years to make them effective butts for farcical humor. Actually, in all recent war films, Hollywood has shown a propensity to have the Gestapo foiled...
...suddenly Vag's head cleared; the room became silent and motionless; the chair maintained a dignified silence. Vag reviewed the events of the day with delicious relish. It had started out as an ordinary day, nothing strange, nothing unusual. Vag had got up, gone to class, gone to sleep, gone home, gone back to bed. He forgot just when it was that he had got the news, or how, but he could never forget what that news was. Four B's! He rolled the words over and over on his tongue, four B's, four B's, four...
Whether they relish it or not. Author Schuman sees that they get it, for he belongs to the totalitarian school of liberals and this is his way of saying: Boo! He wants his readers to understand that the history of Europe's last decade is going to be the history of the human race for an unforeseeable future-unless they do something drastic about it soon...
...members. New Hampshire's citizens will vote on the amendment Nov. 3, 1942. If a two-thirds majority approves, after 1943 New Hampshire's bill for the upkeep of its lawmakers will come down $20,000 a year. But even New Hampshire's politicians did not relish the idea of saving a lot more-at the sacrifice of a lot more jobs...
...teach manners and morals. That was also the case when with his walking-stick he poked off the hat of a man who had not uncovered his head on entering Widener. The offender turned out to be, not a student, but a younger colleague who did not particularly relish the lesson. But everything was settled peaceably, and the men were the best of friends...