Word: delightfullness
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The Irish artistic immigrants in America are many?and it is astonishing how quickly they become acclimated. Take Ernest Boyd, for example, whose literary influence has caused no mean flutter in American criticism, or the Hacketts, or John Butler Yeats, whose death last year took from us one of the...
At the same time, there are those annoying objections that insist on occurring to even the best disciplined minds. While it would be entirely delightful to be tall enough to see over the fences of football fields and baseball parks, going home to bed after the game would present difficulties...
In all of this can be detected that delightful finesse of the French which makes French politics so absorbing and entertaining--and which is ordinarily so lacking in our own public affairs. There is, of course, the old tradition of blunt outspokenness, of terse, "businesslike" expression, of virile, ringing words...
After its third successful appearance in Boston, "The Whole Town's Talking" begins to stand out as one of those rare performances which one enjoys more the second time than the first, and more the third time than the second. One is able at least to escape from the relentless...
Indeed, the Italian people have had no more enthusiastic or sympathetic friend than Mr. Johnson. Ambassador Johnson came to Italy after the Fiume incident. Everything American was anathema. Subversion was rife. The Italians thought him a bit gaga, but distinctly simpatico. He seemed such a nice old gentleman, with so...