Word: delightful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what will seem to be an accidental drowning in a lonely lake. He loses his nerve at the last moment but the boat is overturned by accident and he lets the girl drown. Arrested, he goes though the interminable murder trial full of chicanery and sentiment which is the delight of the American press. He is convicted, and spends his last days trying to understand why he did it, trying to decide whether he was really guilty but finding no clear answer. A poor thing he lived, a poor thing he died...
...pedestal upon which his cultists have placed him with such genuflections and censoring of incense. He has written a great stupid opus. He has disastrously damaged what real claims to distinction he may once have had. And while we are not among those iconoclastic dervishes who are dancing with delight over his downfall, we passionately convinced that his future will not be as rosy as his present is and his past has been...
...kitchens of the great hotels of Europe there is another Zaharoff legend. It is said that the Man of Mystery now and then chases cooks from their ranges and takes delight in cooking, by a method known only to himself, bananas...
...current events he puts a squashed hat on his subject and gives him a name as near the original as possible. The most popular of these are Kidman Grow, for Dr. Cadman, Martin Grow, for Mr. Martin Lomasney, and Homer Grow, for Mr. Homer Loring. Mr. Collier takes great delight in doing this and says it is very easy as we are really all Grows...
...delight in production and invention with a view merely to more production and more invention is a conspicuous feature of modern industry. The tale told in the February "Current History", by John W. O'Leary, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce, fairly bubbles with the joy of quoting seven figure sums. His article, "Twenty-five Years of American Prosperity", is a paean of industrial progress. For the American may vaunt that the wealth of his country, 89 billions of dollars in 1900, has more than trebled since. Some Croesus power has magically turned a five billion dollar debt...