Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor, the much advertised 'talkies,' are practically illiterate," said Philip Merivale, now playing at the Colonial Theatre in Boston, in a CRIMSON interview last night. "They are in the hands of the wrong people; people whose object is money, not art. These people who produce motion pictures take no delight in their work, they have not the least semblance of an aesthetic sense about them. The actors and actresses themselves are little better. They either have no real ability at all, or are well-known stage people who have become lazy and greedy of money. They see an opportunity...
...Bostonian Harvard man, I hall with delight the idea of having a rally Friday night before the Yale game. This rally will fulfill a long-felt need at Harvard. My only fear is that it will be held in such spiritless fashion (because of the celebrated Harvard indifference) as to be completely valueless...
...criticism or slander. As for my ambition to hold office-this in itself is ridiculous. I have never held public office and have repeatedly stated in the publication with which I am associated that I never expect to hold one. Therefore, it would seem that you take malicious delight in endeavoring to embarrass me with the fact that I am doing these things merely for a selfish reason-trying to acquire a public office, which I would not accept if it were tendered me. It may be that in your environment you are so accustomed to things being done from...
...predecessors, however, Mr. La Guardia gains many advantages not directly beneficial to the state. For him the five banquets an evening usually attended by the gleaming Walker in his prime might prove too enlarging an experience. The art of toying delicately with the fifth consecutive rice compote, affecting delight where none exists, is not a virtue granted to all. And then, there is the matter of dinner clothes and neat white ties, a problem which, as in the case of ex-Mayor O'Brien, may baffle the best of mayors...
...those accustomed to polite academic society, this vigorous honesty is somewhat startling, somewhat refreshing. As Mr. Keller doubtless hoped, it blasts away the common sophistry which is the delight of modern professorial dignity and which resides within the debate over "research" and teaching. Typically enough, Sumner, eschewing the word research, maintained that, "Far from being detrimental to teaching, diligent and incessant study, was an indispensable requisite to it. This he took as axiomatic and spent no time talking about it." In form, this is a book of reminiscences; it is a sentimental document, the clear portrait of a great teacher...