Word: delightful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...southern country is a city called Maiden's Delight," so runs The Panchatantra's own introduction. The king there had sired three blockheads. Came a Brahman, by name Vishnu-sharman, who offered to submit himself to a certain indignity at the king's hands if within six months he had not enlightened these blockheads and bred in them the higher intelligence. This was agreed and the Brahman it was who told these stories, the blockheads to whom he told them...
...public adores freaks; it always will. And certain doting mothers will allow precocious performances of their offspring to beguile them into dragging the offspring before the journalistic spotlight. So, occasionally, some child will, through environment or training or whatnot, concoct verses to delight the critics. But critics are often guileless, often glad to enjoy novelty. The maternal conscience should keep more awake. For, after all, few poets of eleven can at thirty survive the reading of their earliest verse. If they can they are not poets...
...save to the reader. So Mr. Young will go on with encircling and increasing his vocabulary and, let us hope, his good judgment. Perhaps he will be so kind as to let a fellow reader into the secret of understanding strange discourses in unfamiliar terms. For he claims to delight in such...
From time to time I have been tempted to criticize certain minor editorial habits of TIME. I have refrained, largely because; of my delight in and enthusiasm for the magazine as a whole...
...assistants to the manufacturers of silk undergarments and cosmetics and high-priced cars. Industry prospers by reason of people who do not get their pleasure from Ideas but need Things to amuse them, playthings, who must have constantly changing and costly pleasures, who run about in motor cars, and delight in fads and fashions and luxuries of all sorts--100 per cent consumers, that's what Industry needs to keep the wheels revolving. The College furnishes plenty of them. Industry need not fear the College; the proportion of educated which it effects is so small as to be negligible...