Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need for a big navy, or for that matter any navy at all? Perhaps some, like President Roosevelt, find them charming pleasurecraft, and like to review these little toy ships. Others may get a destructive joy out of breaking a perfectly good champagne bottle on steel, with an associated delight in thinking how easily the pop-guns overhead can snuff out lives and happiness. But it is impossible to subscribe to the logic of our esteemed contemporary, whose editors apparently believe that all of the people can be fooled all of the time by a trick phrase. There are some...
...Washington one day last week New Jersey's Representative Charles Aubrey Eaton sat down at his House desk, began ruffling through the mail piled up during his vacation. Opening a letter from the White House, he stared for a moment, then crowed with delight. White-thatched Representative Eaton, a Baptist minister from 1893 to 1919, has since 1925 been an ardently Republican member of the House, distinguished of late for his persistent heckling of New Dealers. The White House letter, addressed to "the Rev. Charles A. Eaton," was a copy of President Roosevelt's famed appeal...
Where there is happiness and delight...where the desires of our desires are attained, there make me immortal...
Wrote William Andrew Me Andrew: "Norman Rockwell, erstwhile giver of delight by his depiction of lovable and quaint rugged individualists, took the Evening Post's money to do this ulcerous thing. . . . No decent allegiance to the American ideals of education, as formulated by Washington, Franklin and other founders of the nation . . . can be maintained if public prints throw disrespect on education and on women. The cartoonists drawing teachers depict pretty women, now. The Saturday Evening Post's bad break is probably a relapse, a case of atavism, a recollection by some unhappy old man who told Rockwell what...
...building by persuading RFC to take $650,000 in Planetarium Authority bonds in return for a loan, to be paid off by millions of 25? admissions. But the RFC would not advance funds for a foreign-bought instrument. That problem was solved, to Mr. Davison's surprise and delight, when he was handed a check for $150,000 by Bachelor-Banker Hayden, who had been religiously stirred by a planetarium performance in Chicago (TIME...