Word: relishingly
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Taking courage, she began, with the sober relish of childhood, to empty her raised skirt of rich, crumbling cake. Then she paused, frowning uneasily. Should she have stolen...
...company in Louisiana. For Huey Long has, practically speaking, no personal friends in official Washington. He used to go out sometimes with Senator Wheeler until Senator Wheeler decided he had better keep to quieter company. Although he is on speaking terms with every Senator, there are few members who relish talking to him. He has openly threatened to campaign in the next election against Senators Robinson, Harrison and Bailey. As a whole the Senate dislikes and fears...
...grand French finale, after the flogging, the "executioner" pulls the lever of the guillotine. The blade is so arranged that it stops with a gruesome thump just short of the flogged poule's neck, but excited tourists are found to relish the sadistic idea that it might fall all the way. Female spectators invariably scream. To prove that she has actually been flogged, the poule invites attention to the welts on her thrashed posterior, solicits tips...
Last week the House subcommittee which made the Chicago investigation failed to recommend impeachment of the three judges. It accused them of being guilty of "almost criminal negligence," left impeachment to others to decide. Of the many who did not relish making such a decision one was Representative Everett Dirksen. Said this Illinois Republican...
With a pension from the Telegraph, Percy Bullen last week looked forward with relish to being able to "develop the lost art of thinking" on his Ossining, N. Y. farm...