Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Classicist's Delight...
Mountains were John Muir's particular delight. Once he wrote: "I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. . . . Civilization and fever & all the morbidness that has been hooted at me have not dimmed my glacial eye, & I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing...
...delight of its jocular critics, the feminine stock company, augmented by advanced summer players, many with professional experience at Plymouth and in Cambridge, will have, for its second presentation opening August 1. "Once is Enough...
...first they hardly knew which way to turn," said Q hopefully. "That will do, Sir. Good morning," said the examiner. Q failed to get a "first" (equivalent to summa cum laude) but was given an Oxford lectureship, with Virgil and Aristophanes as his subjects ("I tried to communicate my delight in them rather than to discuss niceties of textual criticism...
...idiom and manner to group quickly the situation and their implications. For this very reason, the Dramatic club should prove a missionary to those that sit in darkness, and prove the value of small reading-clubs like the Stratford club and the Old Shakespeare Club be of Cambridge, whose delight, in "Much Ado," qun play, was notably above the response, even of those speculator who plumed themselves on having seen this or that star and a priori judged the amateurs by that unfair standard. Yours very truly, William C. Holbrook...