Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russdorff, the local Burgomaster made an avowed bid for election popularity by blazoning abroad that he had caused the town's open air swimming pool to be filled with water which would shortly freeze, to the delight of skater-voters...
...took extraordinary delight in the amount of poetry he could prepare for a single morning's edition of the newspaper, and often he published doggerel that was very far from being musical, or was ludicrous alliterative nonsense like this...
...from exploring the educational solemnities of this marine innovation. Mrs. Greene takes her delight in its practical arrangements and curious statistics. For instance, economy in ship space makes the location of the library a ticklish problem. The passengers' smoking room has been found a poor place because the passengers inevitably borrow the books. While the lower gyro room, as the Scotchman said, is "way down, ye know". Resort is usually had to the working alleway although narrowness bothers here. The librarian has to be a man whose profane tasks are not too arduous and one for whom the printed page...
...observed to take particular delight in the joyous exclamations of my two little granddaughters over their gifts. Later we all joined in coffee and beer...
...horses paraded to the music of the band; society sat throned in boxes draped with Spanish shawls, which gave the place the appearance of a bull ring; delegations of children from the Catholic, Jewish and Protestant orphanages and from the Illinois Children's Home clapped their hands in delight. Once the great gathering sucked in its breath and stood up in its seats with the shivering "Ah!" that fevers a plaza de toros when the matador is tossed. This was when Vadabelle, ridden by Dick Messcrop of Port Chester, N. Y., in taking the five-foot wall...