Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shelley by a Frenchman is more apparent than real. Shelley was preeminently a romantic idealist, and at romanticism and idealism the French have long been past masters. M. Maurois has made the past live with words succinct and decisive, sentences deep with comprehension, paragraphs full of irony and delight, chapters seething with critical observations; in all, a book that may well deserve to crown the host of Shelleyana...
Wind-torn, wave-worn, still I sing delight...
During the election campaign, ex-Premier Paul Painlevé, pacifist, academician, the man reputed to have favored pacifism during the War, yet took such delight in claiming responsibility for the appointment of le maréchal Foch to supreme command of the French Army that he wrote a book about it, this man was reported in the Écho de Paris to have said: "Citoyens! The bloc National is the cause of all our national calamities. ... I am French, but I am European. . . . Liberty, fraternity, socialism! . . . Peace with Soviet Russia! . . . Above all peace with republican and pacific Germany...
...indescribable beauty . . . the splashing waterfalls, the lakes . . . and the nestling homes in the crotches of tree limbs of our feathered friends restore to the wanderer that sense of possession of the instinctive heritage of all mankind. . . 'Summer or winter, day or night The woods are an ever new delight...
From researches recently conducted by Professor William Lyon Phelps it appears that the day when the main delight of the vacationing college student was light musical comedy is definitely past, Professor Phelps catechized his class in Contemporary Drama at Yale shortly after the spring recess and made the startling discovery that the modern university undergraduate no longer follows in the dreary wake of the t. b. m. Elevated drama is now the mental restorative of the jaded scholar, and girl and music shows and boisterous revues are relegated to the limbo which conceals the Gaiety and the Old Howard...