Word: delighteful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There has been a steady decline in striking personality as compared with pre-war yesterday, with its Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Gandhi, Churchill, Roosevelt and company . . . Eisenhower offers opportunities, certainly, with his curiously shaped skull and short, wide face, but nobody could say he was a cartoonist's delight . . . Things are even worse with the British. If you found Anthony Eden and Hugh Gaitskell sitting across from you in a train, you probably wouldn't look at either of them twice...
...Immortal Husband seems utterly unpretentious and thoroughly amusing. Its chief point, and delight, is that it is chiefly pointless...
Judgment Day. But the press also gave Lincoln staunch supporters, e.g., the Chicago Tribune and the Cincinnati Daily Commercial, and some memorable reporting, such as the Commercial's description of the elation in Chicago at Lincoln's first nomination: "The city was wild with delight. The 'Old Abe' men formed processions and bore rails through the streets. Torrents of liquor were poured down the hoarse throats of the multitude. A hundred guns were fired from the top of Tremont House...
Capote's record will be a delight to all who like to see heavy political objects fly through the air at the whim of an expert in verbal judo.* Once described by a friend-famed Photographer Cecil Beaton -as a "pocket Hercules," Capote has performed a notable labor...
...prejudice, individualism, and, generally, the problem of deciding exactly what kind of life they want to live. Bick Benedict, the American male-and-father image, reaches two conclusions--that he likes the simple life and that nothing in his life has gone according to plan. Hollywood, with its obvious delight in the movie's extravaganza and its faith in the ultimate triumph of American idealism, succeeds thoroughly in giving him the lie. For the Giant thesis is that everything will turn out wealthy, and all right...