Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with agreeable derision and encumbered with an incredibly heavy last act. If you examine it meticulously you will probably find that the other acts are not too effective. For the sake of the numerous excruciating lines you will waive this examination. Pomeroy's Past is an entertainment of major delight in the conversation. Otherwise it does not matter much...
According to the CRIMSON, "the picture given of Harvard undergraduate life is a thoroughly untrue one, and gives a very false impression of university events." Book publishers, theatrical producers, and motion picture directors seem to take peculiar delight in unveiling to the world misrepresentations of university life that may help appease the appetite of the public for collegiate calumny...
...your Original Subscribers and I believe my attitude toward TIME is typical of the old guard. We do not want TIME changed! Since occasional younger fry - subscribers with only half a dozen copies on the shelf - delight to flay you, may I draw my quill in your defense ? Some of these nouveaux readers have criticized your repetition of "famed" (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 2). May I state that the old guard likes TIME'S distinctive and original use of "one" and "famed" which you employ before the name of an individual exactly as Baedecker used one or two asterisks...
...shovel. If the beggars attempted to use gloves, he hurled boiling water upon them instead. When the moon was full, he hurled nothing at all. Occasionally he wrapped lumps of coal in £100 notes ($500) and heaved them at submissive heads. Countless eyewitnesses testify to his evident delight in scorched palms and bruised flesh. For many years he journeyed often to London and personally drew the gold and silver which he scattered, from a bank which allegedly received some $20,000 a week from the administrators of his property in the U. S. For years a group of London...
...little ball hither and yon over the field and running, running, running at a pace too fleet and steady even for fit Britishers, the Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pa.) lacrosse players last week plunked home 11 goals to 8 plunked by an invading combination from Oxford and Cambridge. Surprise and delight were universal. Just previously, the formidable British dozen had crushed Pennsylvania...