Word: delighteful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy whips, shouting: " 'Oh, this is the fellow that flogged the women, is it!'" A flying squad of police finally dragged him, bloody and beaten, to the safety of a police boat, and, "in the course of Friday night he took his leave" -much to the private delight of Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston...
...President Eisenhower's delight, the deadpan face of Glenn Stephens, who was the engineer on Ike's 1952 campaign train, flashed, onto the screen from Detroit. Stumbling in several places, Stephens read his lines woodenly-and still managed to sound as though he meant every word of what he was saying. "If you want to go train-riding again," said Stephens, "just let me know. I have my hand on the throttle, my lunchbox is full, and I'm ready to start...
Morris draws a sharp line between his own abstractions, with recognizable objects looming out of the background, and the prevailing trend of Manhattan's abstract painters. To Morris, their delight in overall painted surfaces "is like looking into a window loaded with fascinating, kaleidoscopic objects. But in multiplying one area of excitement until it moves right off the canvas, they're not painting abstractions; they're just repeating details...
...Burchfield's love for nature grew naturally out of his boyhood in Salem, Ohio. The woods, fields and swamps on Salem's outskirts were his favorite refuge, where he found a private world overlaid with hobgoblin moods, hints of dark, mysterious forces and occasional lyrical sunbursts of delight. But his first struggling attempts to set down this world of nature met with little popular success. Ever self-doubting, Burchfield decided to turn to realistic paintings of the world...
...those who sit in their rooms fingering the pages of Hemingway and looking wistfully at the blank spaces in the Atlas, The African Lion will be sheer delight. In about an hour of colored photographs, Walt Disney's newest live animal film presents a truly remarkable sequence of scenes involving the wildlife of the African plains. The achievement of the film is not only one of photographic excellence, but of sheer persistence...