Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poor classes,--surely three of the most pressing questions in our industrial life. Unlike most treatments of these topics, the opinions advanced are based on carefully thought out analyses of all sides of the question, they are controlled by sanity of judgment and freedom from pet theories or that delight in monkeying with things so rampant today, and in each case they not only point out the difficulties but suggest solutions of these difficulties. Is there not in these judgments the ring of sound judicial opinion...
Books are the greatest and truest friends man can have. In his youth they delight him, in middle age they offer seclusion from the world, and when he is old--they remain after other friends have gone. He who has the power of reading for pleasure is fortified against the vicissitudes of life...
...included in the category of men who are sponsors of a twentieth century civilization? Or will my colleague interpose that we have such a phrase for mere aesthetic embellishment? And again, if by Americans he means the real indigenous Americans, the Indians, who wielded the tomahawk with a flendish delight, prancing about their scalpless victims about to be roasted at the stake, then we concur in chorus that "the greater their anguish the greater their pleasure"; but that age has passed. If men progress mentally, culturally, and spiritually, then I am convinced we have left far behind the stage when...
...husband was not shot in the war as had been announced. His home-coming starts a series of situations said to be highly amusing. To begin with, husband number one does not know that his wife has married the second time, and to his best friend. He shows such delight in getting back to his home that his best friend, who is now husband number two, has no heart immediately to acquaint him with the true state of affairs. The suspicions of husband number one that everything is not quite right are aroused when he learns that his wife, from...