Word: delights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later, His Royal Highness motored over to Calgary, the neighboring capital of Alberta, and jovially addressed an official gathering, thus: "It is a delight for me to come down from my 'rawnch,' but perhaps I should say ranch." "I am told," continued "Edward, Prince," "that there is a difference between a rawnch and a ranch. A ranch pays, and a rawnch doesn't, but I am not going to give away which my place is." The Canadian tour of Prime Minister & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin diverged from that of the Princes last week as scheduled, and the Baldwin...
Even this," says his grandmother, "has not cured him of his love of teasing them. He takes roguish delight in teasing even his own favorite cocker spaniel, Brown Mumbo...
Married. Miss Charlotte Delight Vanderlip, daughter of Frank Arthur Vanderlip, onetime (1901-09), president of National City Bank, Manhattan; to one Norton Conway, at Scarboro-on-Hudson...
...practice of reserving public parks for the use and delight of the people seems to be as old as civilization. The Egyptians had parks from the earliest times...
Epistles: (answering Gladstone's rebuke) ". . . and after all, it may be that 'to ride an unbroken horse with the reins thrown upon his neck'-as you charge me with doing-gives a greater variety of sensations, a keener delight, and a better prospect of winning the race than to sit solemnly astride of a dead one in a deep reverential calm, with the bridle firmly in your hand...