Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view last week was another of those scandals which periodically afford U. S. film followers an intimate glimpse of high & low life in Hollywood. While the cinema colony shamefully hung its tail between its legs, while circulation managers of the tabloid Press howled with delight, Mary Astor and Dr. Franklyn Thorpe battled for the custody of their 4-year-old daughter in a mud-slinging contest in which the purpose of each was to make the other appear grossly immoral...
...dignified, she seats herself at her grand piano from 8 a. m. to 2 p. m. every day, says: "I just write what I know I can write." Words come to her from her unerring memory of Holy Writ. The anthems appear finally in a neat, vertical hand, a delight to music engravers. Her work done, Carrie Belle Adams devotes herself to her large collections of cream pitchers and quilts...
...Vice Minister Yuzawa of the Home Office on the occasion of his daughter's wedding was so much moved with his delight that he licked the face of the bridegroom to the surprise of the assembly. To speak the truth, Mr. Yuzawa has the curious habit of licking people's faces when he gets drunk...
Motorists have driven around the world but between North and South America no wheel has ever rolled. This fact largely explains the backwardness and poverty of Central America's seven sequestered little nations. It is therefore with genuine delight and excitement that all of them have looked forward for months to the dedication this week of a modern motor highway reaching nearly a quarter of the 3,200 miles from the U. S. to Panama and filling in one more great gap in the long-awaited Inter-American Highway...
...current Theatre Guild production and Pulitzer prize play-Idiot's Delight by Robert Sherwood-is a satire on (1 war, fascism and nationalism, 2 the New Deal, 3 Hollywood, 4 big business in America, 5 the Townsend Plan...