Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fleet football than what Mr. Dooley once called "the more fleet aorist", he had some theoretical respect for that part of man which grows above the neck. Now, apparently, quite otherwise. The pleasant, rasp of the golden key as it slides along the watch chain seems a pale delight compared to the costasies of throwing, the victorious hat over the goal bar of the bowl or the stadium. W. W. Williams in the N. Y. Evening Post
...avoids any suggestion of monotony. There is more time on the stage when nothing is being said than when there is speech, and it is in his silences that Gilpin does some of his best work--though his speech, too, is excellent, and his rich, musical voice is a delight in itself. His gradual degeneration from brazen self-assurance to abject terror proceeds by subtle and orderly degrees, and carries the audience along in cumulative terror. In the first act, a dialogue between the pullman-porter, emperor and Smithers, a while trader on his island empire, is all that makes...
...contributors to F. P. A's column have taken great delight in discovering that Edgar Guest was born in England. We can only add that we wish that he had stayed there. For, if he had, we like to think, he would not today be the most popular poet of either England or America...
Word comes from Budapesth of the discovery by some workmen of a "genuine" Leonardo da Vinci, supposedly lost for decades, and the world of art, thoroughly sophisticated by now, stops very properly to make sure before applauding. Too many great "finds" have been hailed with delight by the dealers, and praised to the skies, only to turn out to be, "sells", much to the discomfiture of the critics and the joy of the uninitiated...
...Keith's this week is Eddie Leonard in "The Minstrel's Delight", in "The Minstrel's Delight", in which he sings and dances his way to a lot of applause. Assisted by Gus and Olive Stewart, he heads the bill which is a very entertaining one. By far the greatest share of the laughs go to William and Joe Mandel, acrobats and comedians extraordinary; nothing could have been more mirthful than their antics in staging a supposedly extemporaneous exhibition. The third big act was a skit entitled "King Solomon Jr." It was a glimpse into the future, showing...