Word: delights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solitude of the leader, the pilot. Each evening the paterfamilias, as family priest, lit the pilot, handed it most carefully over to his youngest to light; on the first night of Channukah, one taper, on the second two, until on the eighth night the children blinked with dazzled delight before the nine bright, golden flame-tips that bobbed, nodded, winked above the nine yellow tapers of wax or paraffin. (Candle tallow is generally forbidden to Jews because it might come from a ritually unclean beast...
...European Philology, and having been ever on the alert to increase his store. As far as modern tongues are concerned, his knowledge was not confined to books: he spoke German and French with admirable mastery, and was easily at home in Italian and Spanish. His English diction was a delight to his friends, who were always fond of hearing him read aloud...
...poor rumshop keeper, rising in wrath, fell with the knife of an English sailor in his side. After nine days' mourning, Jezebel blossomed forth in magenta, and the handsome widow was soon an object of hate to all the married women of the island and a landmark of delight to visiting sailor...
MADE-TO-ORDER STORIES-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Mrs. Fisher's concoction made to the order and delight of her ten-year-old son. Illustrated...
CHIMNEY CORNER STORIES-Veronica S. Hutchinson-Minton, Balch ($2.50). Sixteen well wrought little tales retold to suit those who still delight in beef juice and junket. Cleverly illustrated...