Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March of TIME" . . . tonight was a special delight due to a voice such as one seldom, if ever, hears over the air. I refer to the gentleman who delivered Winston Churchill's speech and later announced the engagement & wedding of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina. I trust it will please you to let us hear more & more from one whose diction & voice are music...
...copy of TIME would have revealed a multitude of finger prints, no toe prints, to delight TIME'S smart circulation sleuths (TIME, Oct. 22, pp. 36?37). . . . (Carried into a crowded, companionable Moscow tram, bright TIME starts more discussions than a tourist in kilts). Zipping through to Moscow with letter speed (record: 11 days), TIME tempts local scribes to translate its pungent Americana days before exchange editors digest slow-moving newspapers. . . . ROBERT S. CARR...
...files (1805-87), pasted her miscellaneous finds into this 650-page album, calls it "the autobiography of the 19th Century." Erudite historians may find nothing startling in News from the Past, but 20th Century readers, if they have not lost their sense of smell, will sniff its pages with delight...
...upon. They must stand at strict attention whenever not actually engaged in serving or carrying off dishes. Any departure from the set regulations brings sharp rebuke from the waitress "captains"--grim females who roam the floor constantly searching for any sign of relaxation or happiness, and pounce with undisguised delight upon offenders. At breakfast the waiters often stand for thirty minutes without stirring, while a dread silence fills the dining-room and the captains prowl vigilantly, hopeful of detecting an unnatural movement or some strangled whisper...
...Galapagos (literally Great Tortoise and pronounced Galapagos) Islands lie on the Equator about 500 miles due west of Ecuador to which country they belong. Seventeenth Century pirates knew them well. Charles Darwin visited them in his famed voyage of the Beagle. Ever since they have been a special delight for scientists, nature fakirs and wanderlustful millionaires. Within recent years such celebrities as William Beebe, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, John Barrymore, Gifford Pinchot, William K. Vanderbilt and Vincent Astor have visited the islands...