Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Originally there was a rider, solemnly "congratulating" President Coolidge for deciding not to run again. To the delight of all, this roused Ohio's fussy Fess to accuse Senator LaFollette of an ulterior motive. President Coolidge had not decided not to run, explained Senator Fess: he had merely chosen; he was still available ; Senator Fess knew better than other Senators, etc., etc. Idaho's bold Borah and several others were for retaining the rider because they interpreted "I do not choose" and subsequent statements to be the utterances of an honest man and not a foxy phrasemaker. Senator...
...reported that girls who work in Kresge Stores took a frank and unwholesome delight in the misfortunes of their "boss;" that it pleased them to know that the man whose name was painted with spotless gold upon a thousand red facades, whose fame for righteousness and reformation was as large as his fame for wealth, was after all no better than themselves; mayhap, not even as good. A year and a half ago, Kresge wrote to Senator James Couzens, asking him for a $1,000 contribution to a girl's home. With a larger check, the senator sent Kresge...
From the character of Mr. McGraw and from the representative body of men which constitute the jury for the 1927 awards, the significance of the Bok fund in the commercial world may be seen. Even those who delight in the somewhat stale pleasure of Babbitt-baiting cannot deny that economic solidity is necessary to cultural progress and that the high standards by which that solidity is maintained are worthy of perpetuation by competition...
...about its entertainment, but its inhabitants came in fashionable crowds to see the whites of Miss Garden's eyes rolling about with passion, pleasure or dismay. As Fanny Legrand, in a devil-red gown, they saw her gobble up the heart of innocent Jean Gaussin. With ill-disguised delight, they saw her track this peasant boy to his lodgings and take up residence therein...
...various intervals a United States Senator momentarily forgets his official dignity and plays the buffoon to the great delight of the chamber, the galleries and the nation. There are times when a member of the legislature can play the sedulous ape and relieve the tediousness of law making without consequences detrimental to his own reputation, the state which he represents, or the august body of which he is a member. However, now that Senator Helfin of Alabama has recanted and admitted that he delivered his oratorical acid of a day or so ago in "fun", it appears that the laughter...