Word: revel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admiral Thaon di Revel, Minister of Marine, resigned...
...Gradually the streets of Pasadena emptied as the rout and revel wound out to the Rose Bowl for the annual East-West football game. On a bench in the stadium, Coach Knute Rockne of Notre Dame stroked his jaw as he watched Leland Stanford, in the first few minutes of play, inexorably shoving his team toward its goal line. The Bowl was bedlam, for most of the 55,000 persons present wanted to see Coach Rockne's team shoveded right off the field. Rockne was not worried, merely pensive. He relinquished his jaw, called to him four young...
...conversation. As he became conscious of the Winkelbergs, their repulsiveness deepened his subjectivity into fiercer and fiercer hunger for experience, a hunger that consumed life and fed, most gruesomely, upon itself. When he married Stella Winkelberg it was largely to inflict a wound upon the body Winkelberg and to revel in the gradual perversion of one of its members...
...hell of a war'?to which they all agree. One marine delights in talking about how he conquered women all over the world and states that he could take any woman away from his superior officer, adding that he is the sheik of his company. The three marines revel in talking about their actions with women and remark sarcastically regarding the Marine Corps posters which are shown throughout this country...
...Commissioner-Author Enright's maiden "thriller," Vultures of the Dark," was featured in Flynn's. The New York World: "To read that 'Fifth Avenue stretched its lancelike length in mirrored sheen,' to read of a party that was 'a modernized version of a Bacchanalian revel with a pseudo-Egyptian setting,' and of a kiss that was 'ambrosia, sipped from a rare chalice' . . . almost any reader might be pardoned for thinking the Commissioner had been an author all his life...