Word: delights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this consumes the second act. A first tells how these impeccable and bosom friends had girlish love affairs with the same man. The man is coming back, also their husbands. In the third act they have headaches. Solemn witnesses will deem the second act a disaster; others a delight. The rest matters scarcely...
...trust" can be composed of 1,000 people scattered all over these United States, most of whom have neither seen nor corresponded with one another, but all of whom delight in solving proverb, booklovers' and cinema picturegames, then this large group is a "trust...
...undertake to refute the Yale Weekly's article. Those who are members or graduates of the University will realize that as a faithful picture of Harvard life it is even funnier than Metro-Goldwyn's tribute. And those who are neither members nor graduates nor friends will derive extraordinary delight from the Macfadden-like revelations of this particular example of "intrinsic vigor and communal health...
...Sewing is permeated with a sweet sentiment and a dellcate tenderness. The organization, both in design and in color is remarkably stable and satisfying. The picture suggests the light and colour of Vermeer, and was certainly produced under his influence. The exhibition is clear evidence of an interest and delight in nature, life...
Suddenly, too acutely aware that half London's delight in them is simply its eagerness to be present at another "Crowne show," like Norman's disaster, Emily asks Philip Luttrell to marry her; Philip Luttrell, a country parson who has developed in his middle age a tardy adolescent adoration for her, covers his surprise with delight. Restraining a last minute eagerness to run away from the country wedding, Emily waits until she reaches London on the first night of her honeymoon to dodge Philip and go back to her brother. But at the house in Edwardes Square...