Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Delight...
...press. In London, Christabel Pankhurst, onetime militant suffragist, window-smasher, picket of Parliaments, had sighed meekly. Parliament was soon expected to pass legislation that would give the vote to all women of 21 or more in England. Suffragist Pankhurst said: "It would have been the Seventh Heaven of delight years ago if this had come to pass. But I have changed since then. Now ... I know we can make the same mistakes...
...problems, however, are dead. But lively Lord Palmerston is no longer dead-thanks to Mr. Guedalla who writes so incontestably well that even a Fiji-Islander would jump with delight to learn, a fact from every page. For example...
...Hollywood is immoral and vice-stricken, Mr. Lyon said. "If an actor in Hollywood gets inebriated every paper in the country prints it in large headlines. How ever, here in Boston, where drunks are seen every night on the street, no one seems to hear of it. The papers delight in disparaging Hollywood...
There are several other exhibits also on show at Widener, rare tomes to delight the bibliophile, leaves from ancient Greek manuscripts and old Latin Grammars...