Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...included for the very good reason that Paul Tibbetts is singing it, but it is one of the dullest pieces the Handel ever wrote. Marguerite Willauer has much better material for her fine soprano voice in "As when the dove laments her love" and "Heart, the seat of soft delight...
...times he still seems a little amazed at the speed of his climb. While talking to an acquaintance some weeks ago, Hilton answered the phone, listened for a moment, then crowed with delight: "I just made half a million today." He bubbled out an explanation that the stock of Hilton Hotels Corp., of which he owns 400,-ooo shares or 26%, had risen five-eights of a point, giving him the paper profit. Then he soberly corrected himself: "No, it was just about $250,000 at that...
Both Reginald Bunthrone and Archibaid Grosvenor, the Fleshy and the Idyllic Poets, played by Bradley M. Walls and Richard M. Murphy fitted about the stage with true aestheticism. Walls' face was a delight to behold as it changed to meet the mood. But credit for the best single performance from a list of many excellent ones must go to Elizabeth Spencer, who was suitably padded with pillows to play Lady Jane. Her aria in the beginning of the second act-done with a bass fiddle-brought down the house...
...Manhattan, Playwright-Author Robert Sherwood (Idiot's Delight, Roosevelt and Hopkins) drew the top price-$600-at a charity auction sale of amateur art. His oil painting, Lion Couchant and Worried, was bought by his wife. Path of Investigation, an item whipped up for the occasion by White House Aide Harry H. Vaughan, went...
...years since Britain wrested Hong Kong from the Chinese during the Opium War, the rocky island which the Chinese contemptuously called a "penguin's nest" has become a traders' and tourists' delight. Despite civil war on the mainland and the Nationalist blockade of China's coast, Hong Kong's trade this year may reach an alltime high. Daily, British and American ships slip into Hong Kong's harbor; nightly, huge motor junks, heavy with Western merchandise, weigh anchor for the ports of Red China...