Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native fishers, who looked on the continent as a distant planet, he was a wonder and delight. By day he would wander along the beach, picking shells and tossing pebbles in the ocean, or telling fairy tales to the children. He never worked. In the fishing boats he was an awkward hand, and let them alone, but in the pub at evening a grand man for a pot of ale and a wild story of the foreign lands. They would sit and talk about his quiet manner and his witty speech, and why, do you think, he should be coming...
...Smith-Roosevelt feud was thus put squarely out in the open where the G. 0. P. could view it with undisguised delight. After such words it seemed impossible that the Brown Derby could support Franklin D. Roosevelt in a national campaign. That Al Smith would use every ounce of his party power and prestige to block such a nomination was now a political certainty...
...audience was agreeably large, it was in part one of the worst that has over well night spoiled a perfect evening in the theatre. Pathos and tragedy were greeted with titters from parts of the house; the climax of the drama was hailed with gleeful delight from the gallery, where, it must be assumed, Boston's maids were taking their Thursday night off. An Irish brogue on the stage, uttering remarks not unheard of before in the theatre, was, to many in the audience, a matter for laughing, and laugh they...
...grim reality for days. We know these things from actually living them. We, who know what war really is, are not pacifists. We don't want another. We feel that these pictures are desired only by publishers for personal gain or by the morbid who derive a fiendish delight from pictures of war-torn wounded, hideous contortions of agonizing death, bloated, discolored, decomposing bodies of young manhood. The publication of such photographs will not prevent war. We know that helplessness invites it (witness China). We feel that pacifists like Carrie Chapman Catt, who weakened the defences of the country...
Author Thomas Mann, famed German novelist and Nobel Prizeman, orated in Weimar on Goethe last week, though not in such towering terms as were used by President Julius Peterson of the Goethe Society in a broadcast heard with delight by all Germany. "Goethe was the greatest poet of all time!" declared President Peterson. "He was the forerunner of Charles Darwin in evolution theory; he was the forerunner of General Goethals in foreseeing the construction of the Panama Canal; and he was the forerunner of Prince von Bismarck in visualizing the creation of a united Germany...