Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought him a chance (as amusement editor) to go on-if not up-from there. For a time, with impish delight, he walked the tight wire between good fun and bad taste. On his pub-crawling beat, sipping an occasional dark-rum Daiquiri, he ogled the rhinestone in a stripteaser's navel, tattled on the Duchess of Windsor's powder-room behavior (she left the maid...
...football field, Junior is the cool, brow-puckering type who insists on shouldering all the worries he can. His big problem is throttling his 175 pounds down to the speed of his interference. Totally unlike most high-pressure halfbacks, he takes high delight in mowing down a rival tackier while running interference for somebody else (he cut down two Duke tacklers with one swoop to make way for a 36-yd. Blanchard touchdown...
...when he's Dean we shall delight...
Main Steet. But the intellectual strut and prosodic perplexities of many of the scoffers left all but a few U.S. readers unmovedd. Main Street moved them. When it appeared (1920), U.S. readers swooped upon it with a cry of shocked delight, and made it their own. Gopher Prairie, first savagely repudiated and then eagerly claimed as the pen name for Lewis' birthplace, Sauk Centre, Minn., was a cartoon of all U.S. small towns slashed on in strokes broad enough to be unmistakable to the most reluctant. Its inhabitiants, at once fearsome and folksy, were at best expertly stage-managed...
Sailor's Delight. In Seattle, a sailor was fished out of the harbor by shore patrolmen; a woman passerby had started to rescue him but let him slip back into the water when she saw that he had no pants...