Word: delightfullness
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Though scarcely a "modern" 1872 woman, Miss MacWatters' acting was satisfactory and her voice delightful arousing the only spontaneous applause of the evening and adding color and warmth to the show. The supporting cast showed remarkable coordination for an opening night and kept the play lively and interesting by diverting...
Gloomy Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, second Viscount Rothermere, found her delightful. After he divorced his first wife, she became his weekend party hostess at Mereworth Castle in Kent.
You Came Along (Hal Wallis-Paramount) almost justifies the people who "don't want to cry at the movies because there's enough sadness in the world already." Striving bravely, in the best tradition of air-corps romance, to maintain a gallant gaiety in the face of impending...
The Viceroy and Lady Wavell shook hands with the delegates, chatted about the delightful weather. This was not just chitchat. Astrologers had claimed that the conference's opening day (June 25) was inauspicious, since there would be a partial eclipse of the moon. Hindus believe that anything begun on...
Affection v. Appetite. The story of Reynard has been variously interpreted. Thomas Carlyle called it "a wild parody of human life." Medievalists have seen in it a parable of the struggle between church and state. But plain readers will always love Reynard simply as a prime deflator of stuffed shirts...