Word: delightful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Ford is one of the most inveterate bargain-hunters in the country. Old inns, old sap-buckets, old railways delight him. Particularly, he has been interested in dilapidated things which the Government has vainly clung to. Refused Muscle Shoals on his own terms, he now considers the idle fleet. Selling things to Mr. Ford, however, is no royal road to fortune...
...apprehension of beauty, there are two apparently conflicting impulses : The first is recognition, as of a face suddenly rekindled in the memory, that makes the mind welcome her strangest comings as foreseen returns; the second is wonder, which sets men to question their own delight and to scrutinize that fabled face as a thing holy and remote. These tendencies follow no order of precedence. Now one, now the other, according to the temper of the times, prevails upon thought. The Italian artists before Giotto, borrowing the immaculate but dispassionate wonder of the Greeks, painted women whose faces were abstract...
...people who have become news because some extravagance in the comedy of their lives has made them pathetic or some vagary in their afflictions has made them funny. Richard Connell, with one snip of the shears, two strokes of the fountain pen, can transform such items into tales that delight the readers of The Saturday Evening Post, and may afterwards be collected in such a book as this. Other nameless ones who have never had the misfortune to furnish grist for a news item will chortle with glee at Big Lord Fauntleroy (a comic story), Sssssssssshhhh (a satiric story), Spring...
...clear and luminous intellect, shining with a steady glow, has been a beacon light to many who seek their way amid the tossing waters that surround as, Loving beauty in literature and in art, and seeing the need of it for the delight of life and the refinement of character, he has never allowed his apostleship of beauty to divert him from the pursuit of goodness and truth. His own literary work, pure and simple in style, elevated in feeling, exact and just in thought, has inspired and stimulated not only his own pupils in the great University...
...flattery, possibly because of our happy ability to forget the origins of our imitations. Of late years sophistication has produced a school that will have nothing that is not indigenous. In the resulting quarrel between the imitators and the originators the subject matter has often been forgotten in the delight of dispute. This is true even of a place so remote from the rest of America as Harvard. The "Oxford tutorial system" has been praised or decried, but not studied. It is not of course desirable that the Oxford system be separated in practice from the needs and hopes...