Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...constant readers of your valuable magazine, and each week welcome it with greater delight. I beg, however, to correct a statement your issue of Jan. 2, under MILESTONES...
...many connoisseurs the question, "Is it a good painting?'' does not occur until they have asked, "Is it genuine?" Last week such connoisseurs took note, with panic or delight, of a controversy which concerned a painting called The Guitar Player, executed long ago by famed Jan Vermeer der Delft; a painting of a young girl seated in a diffused golden light, her fingers quiet upon silent strings. One Guitar Player was bought in London in 1896 by John G. Johnson and has reposed, since his death, with the rest of his collection in his Philadelphia house. Last week, British connoisseurs...
There is an emotion of mixed awe and delight at his inventions that keeps the eyes of every scientist naive and young. Three amiable groups in three separate homes in Schenectady, N. Y. were so moved last week. A few blocks away in a research laboratory of the General Electric Co. a fourth group tingled sympathetically. In the laboratory was a television sending set; in the homes were television receiving sets. In the laboratory broadcasters moved, talked, sang, and in regimented waves their actions and sounds gambolled over the radio to the sight & hearing of the home audiences. Television, last...
BURLESQUE?The stormy sorrow and delight of trouping with a burlesque show (TIME, Sept...
With our hearts full of gratitude for this modern civilization of ours, we sometimes look back and shudder at the cruelty of ancient and medieval times. We wonder how human beings possessing the average allotment of sanity could ever have taken such fiendish delight in the torture of prisoners or the persecution of martyrs. But what assurance have we that the joy of witnessing pain is a trait of the past? A certain recent event, among other things, makes some of us wonder...