Word: delight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre; only Eugene O'Neill in drama and George S. Kaufman in comedy rate higher. Four of the five have won the Pulitzer Prize: Howard for They Knew What They Wanted (1925), Rice for Street Scene (1929), Anderson for Both Your Houses (1933), Sherwood for Idiot's Delight...
...half years as the New Deal's chief weapon against unemployment, the Works Progress Administration has been the delight of cartoonists and paragraphers. The ubiquitous WPA signs, signifying men & women at work building bridges, painting murals, reciting Bernard Shaw or planting oysters-all under the direction of Washington- seemed to the rugged individualists to be a vaguely comic extracurricular activity of the Federal Government...
...delight to Washington gossips last year were the bickerings of the National Bituminous Coal Commission, many of them attributable to the vigorous, Napoleonic methods of its chairman, 50-year-old Charles Hosford Jr. At year's end, however, the commission finally managed the herculean job of fixing 30,000 minimum prices for soft coal produced east of the Mississippi (TIME, Dec. 27). By last week it became apparent that the commission, in its haste, had erred on the side of being too Napoleonic. The Association of American Railroads, whose members burn 22% of U. S. soft coal...
...getting the fence whitewashed is still a U. S. classic of super-salesmanship. His mind is still happily mercurial, weighted one minute with the agonizing secret that Injun oe, and not good old Muff Potter, killed young Doc Robinson in the graveyard; exalted the next by the unholy delight of feeding Pain-killer to Peter, the cat. The painful croppers of his acrobatic courtship of Becky Thatcher, the sharp thimble thumps of exasperated Aunt Polly, the ecstasy and heartache of runaway buccaneering and the bursting satisfaction of eavesdropping on his own funeral, the adventure of being lost in the great...
...bubbling enthusiasm for farming, Farmer Smart admits that his only successful crop so far has been "ideas, sensations, intuitions, feelings, sympathies, and delight in action." For city folk, his much-repeated moral is: Don't take up farming unless you have a "specialty"-writing, for instance. (In Ross County the average income per family is $572; Farmer Smart's minimum budget is $3,000.) Plain farmers might deduce a somewhat different moral. What is needed, they may decide after reading R. F. D., is not to teach writers to farm, but to teach farmers to write bestsellers...