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Word: delighted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish that my ashes shall be laid to rest on the bank of the Seine, in the midst of the French people ... I shall meet my brave warriors in the Elysian Fields. ... We shall talk of our battles to the Scipios, to Hannibal, Caesar and Frederick. What a delight that will be! If only people here on earth are not terrified at seeing so many soldiers put their heads together! ... I bequeath the shame of my death to the royal family of England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Non-Fiction | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...like all vicarious enjoyment, the common delight in the Equator is nothing more than a set of illusions. The "summer isles of Eden laying in dark purple spheres of sea" are, and embody much more, than grass skirts and ukeleles. Today, in his lecture in Economics 10b. at 9 o'clock in Widener U, Professor Usher will speak of the offstage tropics, under the title of "Modern Tropical Colonization; Its Purposes. Methods, and Ethical Concepts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/18/1927 | See Source »

...reader cannot help but be carried if he take any delight at all in apt phrases applied to gestures and expressions or if his sympathy responds to the semi-tragic aspects of homely irony. As a whole, however, "Tomorrow Morning" belongs to the class of modern biographical novels, clinging helplessly to chronology for their structure and unity that try, in a strained way, to reconcile the contradictions of life. Unwilling or unable suggest philosophical standards and apparently indisposed to endorse, with a whole heart, the futility of things, they feebly press the conclusion that solace lies only in the passing...

Author: By G. F. Wyman, | Title: TOMORROW MORNING. By Anne Parish. Harper and Brothers, New York. $2. | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

Hat?White plug (cartoonists' delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Pangs of Gianthood | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...ways of the Anti-Saloon League and its subordinate organizations must be a never-ending delight to anyone interested in intrigue. Last week in Upsala College, New Jersey, there appeared one Lofton S. Wesley of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEELERESQUE | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

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