Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...underpaid clerks swarming from the grimy and red taped government departments; here he can see overpaid members of the now countless federal commissions making self satisfied and often irresponsible decisions reaching into the every day lives of the plain people of the land; here, in fine, he can delight his eyes with the foreign diplomats and the "dancing boys of the state department". I forgot to mention that here too he can see the correspondents of the opposition press twisting a mere nothing into a first class outrage and can also observe the administration press placing the few short1comings...
...hens and nice young things and horn-rimmed stickle-backs and back-seat drivers off on a boulevard of their own and let them ball up their own traffic and smash each others' fenders and scream and stick out their tongues to their hearts' delight. Yours for segregation of the impossible...
...Darwin's Delight. Arthur Brisbane, Hearstling seer, certainly no poet, found other ways to comment on Captain Lindbergh's flight. One of the aviator's chief regrets was that he had not been able to see a whale. "It is too bad," said Mr. Brisbane, "for Lindbergh, flying low to study spouting whale; the whale studying Lindbergh with its tiny eyes would have been a sight to delight Darwin...
...only educators but publicists also praise them so highly. They illustrate the vision that the brotherhood of letters and community of culture knows no boundaries which restrict intercourse. Differences there are between nations in all things. But it is established among civilized peoples that these differences are meant to delight and inspire rather than to repel the scholar or the scientist. From foreign contacts, moreover, native students bring back new notions applicable, usually, to the educational system of their own country, sometimes to other features of its life also. The current ideas afloat in our colleges, the tutorial system...
...last night he had the good fortune to pick out Durgin Parks as the most likely vendor of masticulatory delight. He ate, as every one else is bound to do who chooses this place to dine, a good, substantial dinner. But all the while he was eating it he was speculating; speculating on the possibilities of extravagant fancies finding their fondest desire. Great bowls of red and white were constantly being borne in to other customers; they might contain the hope of a being hungry for spring, and for strawberries. And then he had one. Of course; that he should...