Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour's train ride from Trondheim, Hell is a popular excursion spot for U. S. travelers who delight in sending home picture postcards of the railroad station (see cut). The Norwegian word for Hell is helvede. Hell means nothing...
...President Roosevelt abolished these young zealots' jobs as assistant secretaries for air in the two departments. Today a Navy airman is first of all a sailor, though the Army flyer still thinks of himself as a different breed from other soldiers. But naval aviators did not disguise their delight when word went round that "Reeves is coming in." If there is any petting done, the air force will get petted while Admiral Reeves is in command...
...more probable, and with characteristic British brilliancy, British foreign policy elected to watch and wait, gently and innocently, on the sidelines. Let the characteristic American frankness get caught with its hand in the jam and invite upon itself the food of criticism and abuse which the Japanese military delight in. Let America get into difficulties and let the European good children get the cake. In short my plea is: America watch...
Most of the hundred-odd editors assembled (biggest attendance in four years) did not know quite what to do next. Most of them had never been in Washington professionally. Regular correspondents on the sidelines watched with unholy delight while their bosses showed their clumsiness at crossexamination. But among the editors was one old hand at picking up hot pokers held out by government officials. He was Arthur Joseph Sinnott, managing editor of the rich and prosperous Newark Evening News, biggest and best daily in New Jersey...
Many a plain U.S. citizen will linger over the snapshots of the last Republican and Democratic Conventions, will hoot with sudden delight at an action photograph of the Senate ("Ever seen a section of a termite nest under glass?"), will scratch his head over this group picture of the House of Representatives: ". . . Everywhere the closeset eyes full of lawyer's chicanery, the pursed, selfrighteous mouth drawn down at the corners, the flabby self satisfied jowl...