Word: delights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desk of Editor Ellery Sedgwick. Editor Sedgwick, digesting the criticisms and keeping an open mind, published the third and last article. Most vehement among the critics of the Minor collection was Paul M. Angle, Executive Secretary of the Lincoln Centennial Association of Springfield, Ill., who admitted his delight at the opportunity to "put the magazine of the country in the frying pan and cook it brown." Uncooked and still open-minded, Editor Sedgwick gathered together all reasoned criticisms that had come to him and journeyed to Chicago, where he put all into the hands of Lincoln Expert Angle, and asked...
...spoke', this reviewer, at a guess, would say that the raconteur of Mr. Burbig's stories is of mixed Jewish and Italian parentage and that he learned his English somewhere in Amsterdam Ave. As a result the pristine purity of the true Yiddish-English, a dialect to delight the heart of the connoiseur, is lost...
...will confine my remarks to aviation." The next day he flushed in angry silence at public comment and curiosity about his plans. Finally in Miami he said: "I believe the announcement is sufficient acknowledgement of the engagement." But it really was romantic. The country gurgled its delight. The tabloids went wild with headlines about "Lindy and Anne," " 'We' now a Trio," etc. etc. Arthur Brisbane pontificated: "It is pleasing to know that the chain of Lindbergh's ancestry stretching back across the ocean to powerful men in the North is not to be broken." Instead of sharing...
...mitred Abbots in scarlet and purple robes sat and deliberated. There were strolls in the Borghese gardens and midnight consultations in the overcrowded inns. The youngest delegate was the Archbishop of Baltimore, the late Cardinal Gibbons. The shrewdest was the Archbishop of Westminster, Henry Edward Manning. To his delight he was nicknamed by the other delegates Il Diavolo del Concilio...
...pleased by the acting in the Molnar play. "Caprice" will show you that relative to Guild standards of acting that performance was but mediocre. The acting redeems whatever complaints one may have against the play as such. Mr. Lunt as the attorney is admirable, and Miss Fontanne the usual delight. The work of Mr. Montgomery as the dreamy son, and of Lily Cahill as his mother is equally good...