Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evening gowns will be an embroiderer's delight, appliqued with sequins, bugles, braid, beads and tinsel. Alix and Molyneux favor very full skirts, elaborately draped-fashion scouts kept harping on the word "Baroque...
Most of the gaminess is contributed by a jaded crew of idlers called the Galère, who assemble in Paris, London. Venice and New York, indulge in easy, intermittent love affairs, drive fast cars, make scandals for the tabloids by being interviewed in crowded beds, and generally delight in their reputations for wickedness. A pale, pretty English War widow, Bianca does not really belong with them. She observes them first with detached interest, later plays their game with ironic humor, tries unsuccessfully to prevent their irresponsibility from climaxing in tragedy...
...been to me. I try to get away from it but I can't." Moral of Fauntleroy was the value of altruism. Vivian Burnett died last week of a heart attack just after he and a party of friends, sailing on Long Island Sound in his yawl Delight III, had rescued four people from a capsized sailboat...
Hunt, 33, "John the Revelator" to his fellow Divine cultists, was on trial charged with violating the Mann Act with a Denver 17-year-old named Delight Jewett (TIME, April 12). Defendant Hunt, eloquently seconded by his Negro Attorney Hugh MacBeth, explained that his "relations" with Delight Jewett were religious in nature. He wanted a "Virgin Mary" to produce a "New Redeemer." Could Judge Leon Yankwich understand that...
Judge Yankwich, after hearing pretty Delight Jewett describe her experiences with Defendant Hunt in Beverly Hills, Pasadena, Palm Springs and Albuquerque, could not. Miss Jewett testified: "Mr. Hunt told me I was to be the mother of the new redeemer of the world. It was to be an immaculate conception." Judge Yankwich: "Who was to be the Holy Ghost?" Witness Jewett: "Mr. Hunt didn't say."* After several days of such maundering testimony, with Attorney MacBeth subpoenaing but not delivering Aimee Semple McPherson as an "expert"' witness, Defendant Hunt was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison...