Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Umberto Nobile, designer and skipper of the ship, had been touring U. S. cities to the great delight of Italo-Americans with Fascist leanings. These put on their black shirts and let their "Vivas" echo from Seattle to Manhattan. Such was Nobile's triumph, in fact, that an impression somehow crept into public prints that he had been responsible not only for handling the Norge but for her accurate navigation as well...
...laboratory to social and political science. He is a Darwinian evolutionist, stressing growth as the hopeful fact of life, utility as the guiding fact. He is greatly admired by Author Durant (1885-), director of the Labor Temple School, Manhattan. Dr. Durant gives the impression of valuing philosophy, "that dear delight" of Plato, not primarily for the intellectual ecstasies to be experienced in examining noble works of the human mind (though these ecstasies are well known to him), but for the immediate benefits to society that might follow, if all men took thought or honored the wise men of their time...
...have contemplated going with one meal a day in order to economize so as to be able to renew my subscription to TIME. When I even contemplate sacrificing a good meal for any other object of delight, you can rest assured that that object must be worth while, pleasurable and of great interest-all of which TIME...
...play in which a man carried on sexually with the madam of a bordello, to the delight of the half dozen fancy-women residents. (Weak Sisters...
...Montenegro and the bright Balkans beyond, and if you went with him to his studio he had some very clever portrait work to show you, both in color and in black-and-white. He would tell you, with a quaint mixture of genuine Slavic dignity and bursting childish delight, of how his work had taken on with patrons in Philadelphia, then Rochester, Cleveland, Chicago, Lancaster, Pa., and lately in Manhattan...