Word: delights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the poetry of the immortal playwright. Certainly the foremost U. S. exponent of this orthodox and dignified procedure, Walter Hampden acts with his usual authority and vigor through the crashing, sometimes too sonorous story that has been visited upon the armies at Agincourt. Henry the Fifth will especially delight those who had read their Shakespeare often and who attend modern performances of his dramas largely because it will give them an opportunity of referring to Booth, Irving, and the way they could act in the good old days...
Through his capital, Phnôm-Penh, the body of King Sisowath was borne, last week, in a jewel-studded golden urn, displayed atop a tall, pyramid-like funeral car. At the time of his death, the once straight and stocky King Sisowath, delight of his 100 wives, had been doubled up and forced into the urn. Over him was poured mercury and then a topping of aromatic oils. Previously the Monarch's eldest son, now King Monivong of Cambodia, had intoned in the dead King's ear: "May Buddha receive you. May Buddha receive you! MAY BUDDHA...
...modern life." For him, this statement was not contradicted as its ageless plot unfolded. He laughed to see the blatantly promiscuous bachelor of forty-five summers getting engaged to a sixteen-year-old in the innocent delusion that she was unsophisticated as well as sweet. He chuckled with delight to see her mother, a movie censor, drinking strong fruit punch in the assurance that it was denatured grape-juice. When the sixteen-year-old met the bachelor's nephew, danced with him and kissed him, the man watched it and was happy. When she ran off to "park...
Senator Walsh has a brain, too; a patient, unbending, inexorable instrument in which he takes a chill delight when he brings it to bear on an Oil Scandal or a Power Probe. Unbending, unemotional, he has been called unique: "an Irishman without a sense of humor." Not until the past few years has he shown ambition nor, until very recently, even sufficient self-consciousness to trim up his Montaneering mustache of iron grey...
...Times printed the following dramatic despatch from Washington, Pa.: "Totally blind since she was less than a year old, 13-year-old Mary Grabowsky, second daughter of Walter Grabowsky, a poor miner of Coal Center, this county, walked out of the Washington Hospital today, scarcely able to conceal her delight and asking officers of the Red Cross to hurry her home that she might see her mother for the first time...