Word: revell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After his "revel in sentiment" (as he called it), the Nominee motored to Cedar Rapids. Delegations of Farmers and Farmers' Friends from 14 States* were accorded personal receptions on the wide veranda of "Brucemore," an estate, equipped even to pond swans, owned by a Mrs. George W. Douglas. There were no speeches or press statements. The Nominee, with smiling Western Manager James W. ("Sir James") Good for impresario, simply shook hands with every one, let them look at him, talk to him, ask him questions. A North Dakota contingent, led by Prohibition Administrator John N. Hagen, was assured that...
...first such book to appear in English since Baedeker's Russia of 1914. Smart folk will note Moscow's Savoy Hotel, Leningrad's Hotel d' Europe, and that taxis have a fixed tariff in Moscow but must be bargained for in Leningrad. Map fiends will revel in hundreds of renamed towns, and the heretofore seldom seen Russian spelling of the nation's name: Soyus Sotsialisticheskekh Sovietskikh Respublik ("Union of Socialist Soviet Republics"). Tourists will pore over well-thought-out-schedules for "Seeing Moscow in Eight Days" or Leningrad in seven...
...revel the priests poison Claudia, "and after her death the Cardinal dragged out the remainder of his existence like a heavy chain. He died...
...Student Vagabond--as his readers may perhaps have noticed--has been, as it were in seclusion, sending out, if you will, merely daily bulletins as to his intellectual health: pulse--normal; respiration--noticeable. But he himself has rarely appeared in public due--to the wintry weather, the recent Junior revel--what you will. Today, in fact he has come forth to sniff the air, like a belated ground hog some will say; not indeed to say anything of much pertinence. But the mythical approach of spring with its flowers and tree and other shapsodic subjects, and perhaps the fact that...
Civic Repertory Theatre?Wherein one may revel in various good plays, well done, low priced...