Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prince entertained all the Trumans at a dinner in Belgium's marbled and luxurious Foxhall Road embassy. The Belgians found Margaret Truman charming. One of them playfully told her that, because she always sang solo, he could outdo her as a singer. He then proceeded, to the delight of both Margaret and her father, to sing all four parts of a quartet from Rigoletto...
...admirers of a great writer, even his casual notes and scraps of abandoned work have a fascination; so Chekhov readers will pounce on this new collection of his notebooks, diaries and selected letters with delight. But even those outside the circle of initiates may find much solid pleasure...
...Much of the laborious cuteness, questionable bit by bit, is so wildly preposterous that the total effect is cheerfully insane-a little as if it were possible to have a happy, harmless case of the d.t.s. The movie will undoubtedly bore some people, disgust some and delight others; but on its novelty value alone, it may make a lot of money. The mere thought of the human and subhuman labor and patience behind the entire effort appalls the imagination, let alone the intelligence...
...over 50 years, Matisse has been showering his work upon the world, and each picture, taken separately, has given some delight to some people. Have his long labors accomplished anything more than that? The answer is yes, much more, in spite of the fact that Matisse's avowed purpose has been simply to charm. He has not only enriched the history of art, but changed...
Television, always solid with sport fans, has proved that it can also score a hit with youngsters. NBC's "Howdy Doody," a lop-legged, mop-wigged puppet with a Snerdish grin, is the children's special delight...