Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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City Editor Lane, who had been thinking of starting a teen-age column, gave Val the job. Chicago's bobbysoxers screeched with delight. Val never preached to them ("Kids don't like that"), seldom used jive talk ("Kids don't talk like that unless they're showing off"). She simply reported the news of parties, juke-joints, new fads, new records...
...Smasher. In stage center, Elizabeth blossomed as she never had in the back row. Reporters called her a natural, and radiomen crooned in delight when, at the end of her first broadcast, she ad-libbed a homey little touch by asking Margaret to say goodnight to the British evacuees abroad. Stage-struck from childhood, and on her own at last, Elizabeth was in her element, even if she did sometimes take her duties too seriously. On one dreadful occasion, when she was invited to review the graduating class at a famous officers' training school, Elizabeth had promptly pointed...
...plan of consolidation, he continues, "was hailed with unbounded delight by the Crimson board," whose scheme it was. Its editors were to be elected to the Advocate and its debts assumed by the older publication. By the margin of a single vote, the Advocate board rejected the Crimson...
...becomes pretty potent with the addition of really breathtaking photography. With a choice of angles and backgrounds that highlight the action and delineate the story-line, the photographer has shown the good sense to stand where it matters most and has turned a French countryside stereotype into a visual delight. The second feature has finally had its come-uppance...
...Even Virginia's famous Captain John Smith, was fascinated by the Charles and he went to New England to seek gold, and if not gold perhaps fish, at the source of the river. He gave a map of the Boston area to England's Prince Charles, who took great delight in naming the various landmarks of the area and who finally gave his own name to the river...