Word: delights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daring to lot description hold his action back for so long at the beginning. All through the book the very graphic word picture of life in the Long Island smart set is drawn with fascinating dexterity and every situation is handled with unusual finesse. Mr. Towne's evident delight in character, delincation and even in ordinary description tend to minimize the importance of the conventional plot--the old eternal triangle, although when he changes his scene of action to France during the war, omitting for a few chapters his continual tirade against that senseless, useless, time-eating game of bridge...
...which runs through Manchuria and Mongolia to Russia. A great part of it is now under absolute Soviet control. France, America and Japan are interested in the railway. The Russians say that negotiations broke down owing to the sinister interference of France, America and Japan. Certainly the Japanese expressed delight when they learned of Mr. Wang's failure...
...have been ever a valiant soldier of the truth; a "Happy Warrior", strong, serene and steadfast, in the full meaning of the poet's phrase--with, I imagine, something of the Puritan's delight in the joy of righteous conflict. We rejoice that you are still clad in your shining armor; that your soul is radiant with the spirit of youth...
...with whom, according to their stories I never had any direct contact. They tell me that their careers have been determined by something they heard me say at a public meeting in their town, or by a passage in my writings which early attracted their attention. It is a delightful part of my experience today that I can try to imagine how diffused my influence has been for more than 50 years past, yes, 60 years, and it is really a great delight to remember--not to remember, but to be told--that actions of which...
...confess I receive with great delight what the President of the University said about the spreading influence of Harvard in the present day. I recognize that I have been unusually strong and had unusually good health, and that a great deal of the influence I have exerted,--what has been described as my personality, is derived from those two facts,--strength and health. And with those two things, strength and health, went a great joy in work, just in work. I need not stop to consider why I had joy in work. I never looked in enough to think...