Word: relishingly
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Chortled Mr. Churchill: "The Royal Navy ... is hunting them [U-boats] night and day, I will not say without mercy -because God forbid we should ever part company with that - but at any rate with zeal and not altogether without relish...
...peacetime U. S. businessmen did not relish many of these Government powers. But last week it appeared that the New Deal's peacetime powers were rather well suited to wartime conditions...
...such fugitives from history, learned, liberal Historians Charles and Mary Beard this week provided America in Midpassage (the third volume of their Rise of American Civilization), a condensed but still bulky survey of the last ten years. Into its 977 pages the Beards with evident relish have packed the joltiest jars of the great skid from the boom of 1928 to the gloom of 1939, suggest some new rules for safer driving if the car of state ever climbs back on the road...
...bill to make all State & municipal employes pay income tax to the Federal Government was passed last month by the House. In the Senate, whose members did not relish inflicting pain on their political machines back home, it faced a fight. Government lawyers this week declared that the Supreme Court's new ruling cut both ways, rendered such legislation unnecessary except to relieve State & municipal employes from levies retroactive to 1926. To take advantage of the new ruling, however, most States will have to amend their income tax laws, which specifically exempt Federal salaries. Especially prompt to act should...
First stop was Washington. There the 520 student junketeers had tea with Eleanor Roosevelt, kissed (without relish) Congressmen and Vice President Garner, and danced with the newspaper correspondents' corps, the diplomatic corps and students of three local universities. Next day they hurried on to Annapolis to dance with the midshipmen, then, after their train had been delayed 17 minutes by one tardy dancer, pushed on to West Point. They liked West Point better than Annapolis because it provided two cadets for each girl...