Word: delightfullness
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As Adams grew sourer, his friends avoided him. "When I happened to fall in with him on the street," wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes, "he could be delightful, but when I called at his house and he was posing as the old cardinal, he would turn everything to dust and ashes...
It means a lot to us to feel a hearty Yale slap on our backs. (And think what delightful shivers will go down the spine of each lucky girl when her very own, prescrubbed Yale man murmurs in her ear, "Please dear--all the other fellows are doing it.")
Mondrian in Motion. Calder made his restless, looping pencil line draw in wire, caricaturing his audience, sometimes with barbs. The toast of Paris, Josephine Baker, was his first metal portrait in 1926; her belly button turned into a shimmying, shaking brass spiral. All that was delightful, a gadgeteer's...
Instant Cash. Convinced of this, many businessmen are busy encouraging their customers to plunge more deeply into debt, and producing new and delightful ways in which they can do it. At the Emporium, San Francisco's largest department store, salesclerks have standing orders to encourage each customer who presents...
Porter found his songs wherever he went. Once in Samoa, on a round-the-world cruise, he saw a native dance that had a rhythm too insistent to be forgotten. Back aboard ship, he turned it into Begin the Beguine. A few mornings later, Monty Woolley, who was traveling in...