Word: relishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scowling criminals began to curse Mrs. Dolder, describing her mush also in uncomplimentary terms. Mrs. Dolder turned on a hose and squirted water over the 33 criminals until they cried for mercy. The next night she again provided plates of tepid, sticky, horrible mush. This the prisoners ate with relish...
...were spent with a devoted flourish. Few men would take such risks. Mr. Miller escapes with every honor. The Patriot is a production to be respected deeply, to be seen by many people with great interest, to be regretted by many for a stateliness which robbed it of keen relish...
After we have sped through a maze of humor, which makes up in quantity what it lacks in quality (as the saying goes), and if we have been able to speed through this maze of humor, we will light upon the second part of the book with great relish. The author has conveniently, though perhaps not wisely, divided into two sections the story of his wanderings up the valley of the Dinder River into the foothills of the Abyssinian border. The first he uses to question the reader and himself on "Why do men do it?; the second to answer...
...Leonard's wits almost matched her miniature physical perfections. They carried her so far that she failed to notice how they spoiled her, undermined her values. She could get an Alan Pomeroy so easily by the time she met him that she could not relish him - rufous, genuine, generous, but so obtainable. A Jerry Davis, her natural match at seduction and vastly her superior in experience, could destroy her indifference with one infallible weapon, greater indifference...
...good many men for instance will probably be unwilling to sign the pledge cards which have been sent out because they will not want to eat their breakfasts regularly at the University dining hall. There will also be men who frequently leave Cambridge for week-ends who will not relish the idea of paying for several meals on Saturday and Sunday which they rarely have a chance...