Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many people watched with delight this phenomenal rise. Among them was not S. S. Kresge. It is said that S. S. Kresge does not take delight in anything. Although he has brought happiness to thousands of investors in his stock, to millions of patrons of his stores, the personal life of this swart storeman is not a happy one. His first wife discovered, after living with him for a number of years, that he was "sulky," divorced him. His second wife, young, is suing for divorce and for $7,000,000 "heart balm." His stock is the highest listed...
...political progress on the firm conviction that the voice of the people is but the echo of those who lead them. In short, he caricatures democracy by giving the face of that goddess a Roman nose and by handing her a club, labeled "bunkum". And to those who delight in the raucous ribaldry of Mr. Mencken, and even to those who parade the pageant of their political pessimism a with perennial precision, these words seem the utterances of an oracle. Yet an oracle can have its tongue in its cheek, as Croesus discovered. Indeed, the sincerity of the editor...
...years to cool. These diplomats see peace as an economic necessity, and they are willing to sacrifice something for it. Evidently, the world is at last worried about its eternal warring, so worried as to attempt the novel in preventing war. Therefore, the person who cherishes any delight in the results of the gathering beside the waters of Lake Maggiore is not insanely sanguine. For a few moments, at least, one really dares to hope...
...subject announced by Dr. Straton for his annual Jeremiad at Phillips Brooks House tonight bears no less formidable a title than "The Battle Over the Bible". To those who still keep the flavor of their Gaelic ancestry this may seem a delightful topic for a clergyman's address. But to anyone who has a sincere interest either in the church or in religion it is but one more bugle call in the crazed crusade of notoriety seekers who think the troubles of the church good press agent material. For some time now the attempt on the part of certain...
...learning. Some ruffian of the plains may seek wisdom at his fount. How fortunate he is to be removed from the mundane midst of American mediocrity. Now he can enjoy perfect English among virile types in a violent land. Then, when another agrarian movement robs Mexico of a delight in Shelley, and the bullets of the next candidate for the presidency penetrate the calm of Dr. Finlev's southern sanctum, he may prefer the powder of the northern classroom to the powder of his departed Utopia...