Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Horace grows dearer as the years go by. Although you young people may consider your Latin already lost, you will find that later on in life it will come back to you, and you will read Horace with growing delight," Such was the promise which Professor C. H. Moore '89 made to his hearers yesterday afternoon in the second lecture of the series on five great authors...
...Mencken says of women, "with bright and horrible eyes" all of the weaknesses and vices of men and broadcasts this knowledge to the world. The "funnies" are terribly realistic, destructive, usually pessimistic criticisms of everything although the most popular subjects are domestic life, business and personal adventure. But the delight of ridiculing the vices of others makes the comics quite the most interesting feature to the populace; nothing is half so delicious as seeing A. Mutt revealed in all his shallow pretentiousness or Andy Gump annihilated at the very zenith of his unbearable pride and conceit...
...mind, Prohibition is one of those unfortunate statutes which has tended to turn this country into a law-breaking rather than a law-abiding land. Moreover, those narrow-minded persons who refuse to see both sides of this question, instead of being the country's greatest patriots, as they delight in terming themselves, are merely hopelessly trying to have enforced without limitation a decree which has caused more law-abiding citizens to become, legally, criminals, and more criminals, actually, to become wealthy and influential men than any other law in the history of the country, to put it mildly...
After sifting 25,000 words submitted by more than 6000 contestants, Mr. Delcevare King of Quincy, staunch and ingenious disciple of Prohibition, has chosen the composite "scofflaw" as best describing those revolting, unregenerate citizens who delight in violating the Eighteenth Amendment. This word was selected because best of all it conjured up nauseating visions, true portraits of the lawbreakers, and suggested to every right-thinking person their deep and ignominious depravity. Just repeat "scofflaw" quietly several times; its deadly effect is immediately apparent. Anyone who applies the term to a fellow citizen will do well to follow the famous advice...
This is an amiable and most instructive book, reviving many forgotten things that should never have been forgotten, explaining many traditions that have been twisted. Any Harvard man, in fact, I think, anyone interested in early matters of America, will find this book of absorbing interest and unending delight...