Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward, fairly caught, laughed among the first; and since then Miss Jones has been an all-licensed Negress. Nightly she coaxes or drags celebrities out on her jazz floor, makes them perform, makes them ridiculous to their own intense delight-for the crowd are all clannishly impersonal and good-humored. Therefore, last week Prince Henry was not irked when Miss Jones sought to draft him as a contestant in an impromptu black bottom contest...
...presentation of the best work of the clubs, would it not seem advisable to hold is joint cncert in the winter or spring, in which both clubs might take part in the more elaborate programs which they are capable of offering and which real music lovers would delight to hear? . . ." The answer to this interrogation was forthcoming on the following day when the president of the Harvard Glee-Club announced in a letter to the CRIMSON, that an invitation had already been extended to the Yale organization for just such a concert and that an acceptance had been received...
...study in novelists' materials. Reeds, rushes, weatherbeaten barns, pebbled beaches, a whitish sea, gulls and blackbirds gliding and skimming from foam-splashed boulder to knotted and salt-rimed stump, broken love to the tattoo of sympathetic rains and a pathological religions mania to the cresendo of a venegeful thunderstorm, delight the eye and, chaotically enough, provoke the emotions but the relation of these things to a masterful novel is less than that of sand to granite. Not only should, in this case the parts or particles cohere more closely but there might well be other elements sifted in. One fails...
...fast pace of the Romans she attempts to outdistance them. It is very plain that the author has carefully studied all of the vices of ancient Rome and is attempting to shock the reader by revealing them through the veil of satire. Seldom does he impress, amuse, or delight, but he always succeeds in disgusting the reader. Cleopatra in the passionate embrace of Antony, Cleopatra in the passionate embrace of Antony, Cleopatra stroking the "smooth dark, velvety skin" of her black African eunuch, Cinnabar, with her bear foot. Cleopatra drinking herself under the table at a Roman revel repeatedly gives...
...crime of plump, complacent, witty, dynamic Editor Leon Daudet is "defaming the police." He has defamed almost every high official in France at one time or another in L'Action Francaise, to the huge delight of Parisians; but "defaming the police" serves to cover the merry multitude of his bright sins. No one really wants to bright put such a booming, spacious fellow as M. Daudet in jail; but appearances must be preserved, and he has already had two years of grace...