Word: delight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blast at the heebie-jeebies of suburban life, Ogden Nash serenely continues to steamroller the Muses to the delight of all spectators. His poetry, which has now come to represent a new genre of versification, is more rambling and full of humorous digressions than ever. As in his former books, he mutilates metre and rhythm with gusto, but here he is more successful in his butchery of poetic principle, for his creations are bristling with original, biting observations that have the reader chuckling at every line. Only infrequently does he lapse, inevitably perhaps, into frequently does he lapse, inevitably perhaps...
...American history courses. Unless a thorough course has been taken in school, it is necessary for those intending to enter the American field. The numerous hour exams make it elementary, but the reading is comprehensive and Buck's lectures good. With Professor Morison's personality History 60 is a delight for the American specialist; last year Nettels was very good. History 62a gives an economic approach to America. The most important course to the American concentrator is 63; although his humor is pleasant. Professor Schlesinger's lectures are on the whole dull. Most of the reading, especially the literary aspect...
...Like a kangaroo's pouch, DC-4's large belly compartment will enable the plane to carry 6,500 pounds of freight. This is a delight to the airlines, for a 200-lb. transcontinental passenger brings them no more revenue than 200 pounds of air express, and mailbags eat no sandwiches...
...alive . . . insensitiveness is the one cardinal sin." Still alive 29 years later, while continuing to think each year his last, Llewelyn Powys has succeeded in writing a half-dozen books which stand out for their acute observations of nature, their sensitive prose, their blend of pessimism and pagan delight in the "rabble senses." The most polished of the prolific Powys brothers (John Cowper Powys, T. F. Powys), Llewelyn is also the most uneven. But even cautious critics rank three of his ten books-Ebony and Ivory, Skin for Skin, The Cradle of God-among the minor English classics...
...through your columns the actions of a certain set of Sophomores in Memorial Hall. In the matter of loud talking, boisterous behavior, and general vulgarity of demeanor they are unexcelled. If they would indulge in their monkeyshines when there are no strangers about; but they seem to take particular delight in throwing bread, hammering on the table and cursing the waiter when there are spectators in the gallery. Just at this time the public is subjecting Harvard students to a good deal of unfavorable criticism, and it behooves us to be very careful of the impressions we give. (Letter...