Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many Phil-Hellenes in the world of scholars will receive with delight the announcement that the proposed establishment at of an American school of classical studies at Athens has finally been brought to a successful issue...
...sweeten the flavor by hurling slanders against us. His administration here was one of tyranny, justice at his hand being unknown, and the "pack-up-and-leave" system of punishment for crimes real and supposed, carried to perfection. He was universally disliked, and his resignation was hailed with unconcealed delight by the students, and, we have reason to believe, with satisfaction to the faculty...
...article by interested readers. Naturally the conclusive weight of argument has been with the advocates of the European or Harvard system, since every logical consideration is in its favor, and the forum of the Nation is rarely blessed by the stimulating presence of that class of gentlemen whose chief delight is in tearing to pieces anything that remotely hints of any imitation of European "effeteness." But a correspondent in the last Nation really states the essential points of the argument most clearly. The grounds of the discussion are simple enough, but are too often lost sight of by undiscriminating fathers...
...which has constantly cluded his grasp. Like the Samian king, he left a cup untasted to pursue game he failed to secure, and has verified the proverb, 'There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.'" The return of the editors of the Academica is hailed with delight by the whole college...
...Boston, the perennial Denman Thompson appears as Joshua Whitcomb. The house will be crowded at every performance, as is the wont whenever Mr. Thompson presents his laughable characterization of the New England farmer. Season after season he "continues to delight crowded audiences," as the show bill says, until it has become a wonder in the theatrical world, that a piece of such trifling character, or rather a conglomeration of such commonplace incidents, should meet with such uninterrupted success...