Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organization, but quite possibly a powerful one, if it can appeal to the mass of Roosevelt supporters by going the President one better. And it is doubtful whether such eminent but capitalistic New Dealers as Messrs. Baruch, Richberg, and their friends will view such a move with delight...
...Miami, Junior Welterweight Champion Barney Ross defended his title against Frankie Klick of San Francisco after their ten-round bout had been postponed four days on account of cold. The crowd of 12,000, sprinkled with rain, stood up and howled with delight when Barney Ross was awarded the decision on points...
...Norris is the joy of her family, a delight to the most successful wits in Manhattan, whose books, plays, columns or magazines may deride the very qualities Kathleen Norris' novels champion. George Kaufman, Harold Ross, Franklin P. Adams, Alexander Woollcott are doting friends. She remains abstract in any crowd, never gives the appearance of listening. When Corinne Roosevelt Robinson tried to tell her once that her brother liked her book, Mother, Mrs. Norris vaguely got him confused with a doctor in Buffalo, made a mental note that it was probably the obstetrical parts of her story that appealed...
...Strangely enough, the time and money were well spent. In its finished form, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is precisely what it should be, a rich and engrossing melodrama, concerned with heroism, pigsticking, torture chambers, spies and the White Man's Burden, which should delight all occidental audiences and infuriate Mahatma Gandhi...
That Forsaking All Others should be offered as a self-sufficient comedy of manners is a reflection less on Hollywood than on that portion of the public which it will delight. Adapted from an unsuccessful play in which Tallulah Bankhead performed (TIME, March 13, 1933), produced with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's finest trimmings, it contains a few bits of expert comedy by Charles Butterworth. Worst shot: Dill Todd giving Mary Clay a ride on the handlebars of a borrowed bicycle, landing in a pigpen...