Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...express Kraft durch Freude in English and retain its initial meaning it would be much more fitting to translate it as Vigor through Enjoyment or Vitality through Delight or Health through Happiness...
...opposed the Wages-&-Hours bill without pay differentials, the Administration argued that the South would never get anywhere unless it paid its labor better. Now was the Administration's moment to make good on that view. With President Roosevelt's approval, and to Mr. Lasser's delight, Mr. Hopkins announced wage boosts for WPA workers in 13 Southern States. Minimum pay went up from $21 a month for unskilled labor in rural districts to $26. In four states- North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma-all classes of workers were boosted. In two States-Kentucky and Oklahoma- where Roosevelt...
...Freuchen had a hard time curbing his grizzly-bear strength. (Hugged impulsively by Freuchen, the wife of a German cinema director slumped to the floor unconscious, was taken to the hospital with two broken ribs.) In Denmark Author Freuchen went to work to make money with as much frank delight as if he were harpooning a fine catch of seals. Marrying a beautiful margarine heiress, he began lecturing, wrote Polar news for a Copenhagen newspaper, became editor of a magazine started by his in-laws to lend prestige to the margarine business. When Freuchen was gypped, as when he bought...
...delight of jurors in a Los Angeles court, tempestuous, bow-lipped Cinemactress Constance Bennett giggled, made faces, testified that she refused to pay $3,500 for Artist William Andrew Pogany's portrait of her because he had made her: 1) round shouldered, 2) redheaded, 3) thick-thighed; had not shown her red fingernails; had made her look "like a droopy sack of cement with a rope tied around it." Sit-in model for the portrait had been Mrs. Pogany. Snapped Miss Bennett: "Why, that woman is an Amazon!" Snorted 55-year-old Willy Pogany: "She wanted me to compromise...
...Bouquets (by Eleanor & Herbert Farjeon; produced by Marc Connelly in association with Bela Blau) is a mannerly, mock-genteel operetta of Victorian days which delighted Londoners for almost nine months, will not delight the U. S. so long. It does a fairly good job of trying to eat its cake and have it too: makes gay, simpering fun of itself while it strives after a light-as-thistledown charm. a snows-of-yesteryear nostalgia. Its lyrics are mock and merry-andrew, its tunes (out of such Victorian composers as Offenbach, Balfe and Gounod) softly glide and sway, recalling gaslit ballrooms...