Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political lions of Washington. There, on spring evenings, looking across the lawns towards the lights of the Potomac's bridges and the distant dome of the Capitol, she has entertained nearly every Democratic Senator in the Capitol, all the important Ambassadors and many another bigwig, taking particular delight in pitting conservatives and liberals, such as Justice Roberts and Heywood Broun, or George Creel and David Lawrence...
...reforms are needed if the sport is not to collapse. The proposal already before the Council for a series of lesser debates to take place before local organizations in Cambridge and Boston should stir up outside interest. Further than that there are untapped resources in the Houses that would delight to participate in informal debating, and it is to these men, as well as to total outsiders, that the Council should direct its appeal. And to make the revival endure, a salaried coach, preferably from faculty ranks, will have to be called in and made available to the sharks...
...bright spring day such a pretty young cherubim was perched on the top of a fence in the vicinity of Kirkland House, quietly cycing the passing stragglers on their way to nine o'clock classes. Suddenly she squealed with childish delight, and then quickly stifled her cry for fear of being heard and seen. Hunching her shoulders and crouching like an adventurous puppy waiting to pounce upon a mouse, she cautiously watched a tall, scrawny human being ambulate down the side-walk toward her. Indeed, the prospective victim-- for victim she intended him to be--was worthy of attack...
...book's most telling denunciation of modern painting comes not from Mrs. Logan but in a quotation from Critic Henry Rankin Poore, who to her great delight wrote : "At a recent exhibition of an interesting group of French 'Moderns' . . . was a small picture by Matisse of a sauce pan containing two broken eggs lying on a spotted cloth. . . . The eggs had dark brown shadows and even to the uncritical eye of man appeared doubtful. . . . On inquiring the price, it was found to be $5,000. . . . Let us appraise the components of the transaction: Canvas $1.00 Pigment...
...regularly and had to be changed without giving any assistance, the nurse using large cloths in the manner of diapers. She would eat, sleep, make peculiar noises and cry. She liked to be fondled and handled by almost anyone. Her only recognition of her family was an expression of delight when they came...