Word: delights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order to get and hold these contracts, you might at some future date, have to show increasing circulation, and it will be this writer's delight to keep said circulation below normal. I have spent my last 15? for TIME...
Because no person will agree with another person's view of him, few persons are satisfied with their portraits. John Davison Rockefeller expressed delight at seeing Sargent's portrait of him but Calvin Coolidge, when he had been painted by Philip Lazlo, sent for the artist to come and finish one of his hands. What emotions of embarrassment, scorn, amusement and despair Painter Lazlo must have concealed in the letter which he addressed to the President to inform him that the hand was finished...
...Mysterious Lady. They say that Greta Garbo once went to see one of her own films and has never done so again. The reason: she was sickened by the long and langorous close-ups which delight cinemaddicts. There are plenty of such close-ups in The Mysterious Lady. But otherwise. Miss Garbo gives a dignified and stirring performance as Russia's greatest pre-War lady spy. The man in the case (Conrad Nagel) fails to click...
Since the hunting lodge leases originally provided for no such "improvement," the whole expense has had to be borne by the English Cunard Line, to the delight of Scots, many of whom will tub in their own lodges for the first time when U. S. sportsmen have left...
...rocked, a woman spoke in Faneuil Hall, Boston, on Independence Day. She was U. S. Representative (Mrs.) Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, and during her address the cradle rocked again. As became a good Republican, she praised Herbert Clark Hoover. Then, to the surprise of some Bostonians and the delight of others, she said: "I am going to speak of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. He, too, came of the people. . . . America gave him his chance and he grasped it. He has made good use of that chance for the benefit of his State and perhaps he will...