Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little voice shrilling with delight, the midget was finally escorted back to her own circus and the Senate's great side-show went on. Banker Morgan's partners stared in astonishment at their friend who up to last fortnight would only rarely suffer himself to be photographed. When Senator Fletcher, committee chairman, heard what had happened, he denounced it as a ''damned outrage," ordered the Morgan-midget films suppressed, telegraphed newspapers not to use them. When few obeyed, he barred cameramen from the committee room. The week prior Senator Glass, denouncing the committee's helter...
Barbara Stanwyck's contribution to the show is of the sort which used to delight backwoods cinema audiences. She re-enacts bits from two of her old pictures, Ladies of Leisure and The Miracle Woman. There are two talented dancers, Beuvell & Tova, and one song which most radio listeners have already heard and admired, "I'll Take An Option...
...constant development of the House Plan makes the existence of a large class debarred of its privileges particularly undesirable. Obviously House spirit, whatever dimensions it may have assumed at this stage, is a delight in which they will be unable to indulge. For this problem no ready remedy suggests itself. But residence in the Houses carries advantages of a more tangible kind, the use of the dining halls and libraries, and it is unnecessary that these men should be deprived of them...
...amusing anecdotes about the "Headly Rod" and the "Yaller Bok", about Oscar Wilde, George Moore, and about Israel Zangwill. But all this is incidental, as it pertains to the life of Grant Richards up to his twenty-third year. And this, his early life, he recounts with modesty, with delight and understanding...
...charming ending to a charming book. "Memories of a Misspent Youth has the flavor of an old man looking back indulgently on the foibles of his younger days with the perspective of a Charles Lamb and with somewhat of his pathos, his delight in small things and his sense of the beauty of human life. All that is wanting is a continuation of the book that will recount Grant Richards' life as a publisher and a writer, and that will trace the years from 1896 to the present