Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because she goes for the Grant version of the strong, silent type. In time one thing leads to another, and sandwiched in among poisoned cups of coffee and champagne bottles loaded with uranium ore is a five minute amatory session that can best be described as sheer vicarious delight...
...Always Loved You (Republic) is a pretentious soap opera-with Technicolor and music-made by a studio which normally earns its living making simple, workmanlike horse opera. It will delight Rachmaninoff admirers with repeated fine performances of the Piano Concerto No. 2. It will also please moviegoers who enjoy a good cry when an emotionally rattled heroine makes life miserable for herself and her family...
...sunned himself on the yacht's fantail, went swimming, loafed, read. One day jovial Crony George Allen persuaded him, against his better judgment, to take a fishing trip. To his delight he caught more fish than anyone else in the party-13½ pounds all told. Even better, Major General Harry A. Vaughan got seasick while the President did not feel a qualm...
Some girls save ticket stubs as reminders of pleasant evenings at the theatre, other people buy glossy brochures from lobby hawkers describing intimate facts and figures of dramatists, many Harvard men have only pleasant memories of time spent in Howardian delight; but the University knows no bounds in its mementoes of theatrical history...
...little musty and more than a little talkative, but audiences are likely to wonder whether it is possible to get enough movie talk as good as this. Caesar and Cleopatra was written nearly 50 years ago, but as a comedy of youth and age it is an enduring delight; it is also a fascinating, vividly contemporary study of leadership. Shaw has examined the complexities of cynicism and benevolence, megalomania and selflessness, intuitiveness and hard reason, passive resistance and calm brutality, which combined to make the soldier-statesman. His portrait shows Caesar to be a man as far beyond mere knowledgeability...