Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...groveling social and religious lepers of Mother India are her famed 50,000,000 Untouchables with whom there is nothing physically the matter and with some of whom King Edward, when Prince of Wales, shook hands, to their incredulous delight...
...considerable reputations among society portraitists: Lydia Field Emmet, Ellen Emmet Rand. Of greatest interest to gallery goers was Lydia Field Emmet's boyhood portrait of her nephew, the best-known contemporary of the clan, lanky playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (Reunion in Vienna, The Petrified Forest, Idiot's Delight...
...course, is to bring national problems of overwhelming importance into full prespective. Last year a number of the "big men" participating expressed their delight at discovering this new method of self-education. That indeed, epitomizes the spirit of a conference in which leaders in various fields collaborate with but a single goal in mind--the building of a broader understanding...
...Scotland in 1773. The Journal begins with its superb description of the Rambler at the age of 64: "His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantic, and grown unwieldy from corpulency." It describes Johnson's arrival at Boswell's home, Boswell's delight at his dear wife's consideration for his friend, Johnson's unvaried conversational triumphs, the period from Aug. 14 to Nov. 22, when Johnson started back to England. Johnson's celebrated "bow-wow-way," as Lord Pembroke called it, without which his conversation would seem less extraordinary...
There are many people who delight in commiserating with football players about what a tough life they have: "Goe whiz, Bill, you have a pretty tough life of it out for football every afternoon and then you're all fagged out so you can't study." This sense of defeatism or what have you is seeping down into the prep schools and causing a bunch of those who otherwise might come to Harvard to take a chance on some other college, not because they want to, but because, well, they're just afraid...