Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Illustrious and Venerable Guest:-All these assembled here salute you. We welcome you with rejoicings; we greet you with congratulations; we delight to do you honor and to pay you the tribute of our devotion...
...paper continues, "does not lose his large vision. He believes that the United States is far better governed today than she was when he started life. And while he is cautiously reticent over the growing influence of the universities in public life, his usually reflective eyes gleam with subdued delight when he recalls how this or that Harvard man has been found faithful in the administration of some high office...
...would undoubtedly hail it as irrefutable proof of his theory of the "music of the spheres". And in a Greek rapture over this satisfactory conclusion to his speculations he might neglect to discuss the other possible sources of the "heavenly harmony". To some degree the radio novice in his delight over the successful operation of his "set" has likewise forgotten to interest himself in the problems of the origin of those invisible waves which he has set his wires to snare...
...present Miss Ferber is living in Manhattan and working on a play with George Kaufman. She has taken a fairly long lease on an apartment which overlooks Central Park. There she lives with her mother, a genial, happy person who takes much delight in entertaining Miss Ferber's friends...
...specific--which is the delight of Dr. Fitch.--the college youths read "frothy stories". One might comment that Dr. Fitch's adjective was chosen with admirable restraint. And "they are strong on college games, gassip and athletics." This is nothing but pure flattery. It was intended, no doubt to salve the sting of the arrows. "They regard their professors with a mild and benevolent indifference." This at any rate goes too far. There is certainly nothing the college man would rather do; but, except with a few exceedingly superior persons, this ambition has been but lamely realized. It is much...