Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious discomfort of Edward, but to the delight of all others, Mr. Harvey drew a comparison between the Prince who fought in France clad in black armor and the Prince who fought there in khaki; from that he proceeded to eulogize him as " the White Prince...
...Elihu Root calls attention to the widespread misuse of leisure, particularly among those who have recently acquired it. In a world in which the workman no longer has the joy of "perfecting his works" but merely the delight of pulling a lever 897 times an hour, he must save his soul in his leisure time if he is to save it at all. His difficulty at present is that he would rather lose his soul than his spare time. And Mr. Root says he can't have both...
Numerous undergraduates interested in social service have viewed with delight the new branch of this philanthropy that has recently found its origin in New York. Strangers to the "big city,"--lonely, desirous of human companionship--have only to use the telephone to secure a charming feminine partner who will be eager to give the wanderer an evening of "wholesome pleasure." A gentlemen's preferences as to color, age, and figure are given careful attention by those in charge of allotting the girls; all that is required of the man in the case in a payment of ten dollars...
...chapel holds, and the continuing good scholarship of those once on the "Dean's List" as well as Its incentive toward better work, are enough to brave the wisdom of the University's liberalism. We are inclined to wonder with the Yale "News", if "perhaps Yale's authorities delight in cobwebs", since the faculty hesitates so long before dusting out these corners...
...Elizabethan comedies, one is puzzled sometimes to follow the twisted threads of plot and counterplot; but on the stage it all unfolds compactly and without confusion. The trick of deception, dramatic irony, we call it, is a favorite device in this play, and it is used to the full delight of the audience. How the pit must have roared when the young couple fled off to be married, leaving the cruel father in false satisfaction! And in the closing scene, when he is confronted with mistake after mistake, accumulating to a frenzied catastrophe, one begins to think that our modern...