Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebels reassured the owner by formally signing for everything-they delight in mixing barbarism with bureaucracy-but before long, they held all the sugar workers as hostages and were manufacturing cannon in the mill workshops...
Chanel & Shower Curtains. Chicago society has been dressing up for years, but New and Old Guard alike have welcomed the new sanction with delight. Mrs. Edward Byron Smith, whose family is among Chicago's oldest, still shops in small, exclusive local stores, is so socially secure that she found it "quite amusing" to encounter another woman wearing the identical gown at a recent ball. Mrs. Michael Butler, 31, third wife to her second husband, a millionaire sportsman (Manhattan's Robin Butler was his second) keeps busy with two daughters (by No. 1) and a ten-month...
...vision to delight nearly every harassed taxpayer and housewife-except those whose domestic economy often depends on the calculation that a check cashed at 4 p.m. Friday will not reach the bank before the following Wednesday...
...first fascination. He tried many trades, from lumberjack to able seaman; he was graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1919 as a mechanical engineer. Drawing came naturally, and five years out of college he signed on as an illustrator for the National Police Gazette. To his delight, one day he was assigned to sketch the circus. Barnum & Bailey was so pleased that it gave him a free entrance pass. He followed the American artists' trail to Paris, where he made his own toy circus in which he sat performing like some child Gargantua for such luminaries as Fernand...
Attacking English with a French accent, Swedish Actress Sallert is a lip reader's delight; baffled playgoers may feel that she is singing in tongues. As it happens, missing the show's lines is a fringe benefit, unless one relishes lame quips ("For someone who was a postmaster-general of North America, you could have written"), exclamatory archaisms ("By thunder, I know the wench!") or arch witticism ("I invented bifocals because I thought a man should be able to see the girl in his arms at one and the same time as her husband coming...