Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman can be either a bore, an embarrassment or a blessing. Or all three. Shirley Challoner, a blessing, would never have writ ten this book. Authoress Colby is sometimes tiresome, sometimes embarrassing, yet she created Shirley Challoner and the "green forest." The whole point of the book is to delight people who can understand that "Debussy is the wettest music ?passion done in silver point," and similar subtle apperceptions. Yet between subtlety and forced fancy even "understanding" readers will detect many a disheartening difference. The girl's face "banged shut." About babies: "There might be sky-blue ones...
...succession of human ontacts and exhibitions of ingenuity which suggests that the day of standardization in pay, promotion, and practice still lies in an indefinite future. In this adventurous outlook she has one definite bias; she has grown up with the modern advertising business and undoubtedly shares its delight in glamour...
...there was one voice raised besides George Bernard Scrooge's. It was a superb opportunity for that professionally altruistic sheetlet the Nation, and the voice therein belonged to one Eugene Lyons. To his editor's delight, Writer Lyons burlesqued the annual spectacle of U. S. newspapers trying to outdo one another in seasonal generosity and solicitude. He pictured Prosperity, "a big, blustering fellow," momentarily obscured in the national circus by sideshows of infirmity and destitution...
...When he claps a very formal archduke on the back in the hearty manner of Times Square, the audience hee-haws. When the cowboy (ably done by Minor Watson) begs his courtiers not to go into reverse as they back out in his presence, the audience grunts its delight. When . . but the rest is the same...
...against you more times than I. But sympathy was growing through the years when our radical difference of temper was becoming plain. Smoothly and with no violent change I passed through distrust, tolerance, respect, admiration, liking, into the hearty friendship--I might say the love--which makes it a delight to work with you now, whether in opposition or alliance, Probably we shall always approach subjects from opposite sides. You began in chemistry, I in theology. But nothing can touch my deep affection for you or my gratitude to the man who more than any other shows me perpetually...