Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much to its probable discomfiture, has hatched another crop of mosquitoes to edit again the Harkness Hoot. These young posts hover over Yale's precious architecture, thumb their noses at its partially Gothic elegance, refuse to be in any way cowed by the Harkness millions, and take an unholy delight in the inconsistencies they see taking shape around them--particularly in the Gothic exterior of Pierson-Davenport College and its Georgian inner court. They helpfully offer as their own proposed Yale building a drawing of a very prettily designed small church of American colonial architecture topped with a large, ornate...
...professor on correcting some examinations found to his delight this perfect simile, "It was thought mythologically that Saint Peter, when he died, was commissioned by Christ or God to stand before the golden gates of Heaven, and act like the Chairman of the Committee on Admissions...
...pleased by this little play; the police should not; and this, no doubt, is all to the good. There is one of those pleasing scenes of official sadism, inseparable from any piece dealing with the gentlemen in blue which usually sends the audience off into spasms of thrilled delight, and this particular reviewer into those of profound disgust...
Today Baron & Baroness Shidehara delight chiefly in their smart sons, Michitaro (29), Shigeo (26), and in their unassuming, rock-gardened week-end home at Kamakura on the eastern tip of crescent-shaped Sagami Bay. On the western tip, thrillingly visible to the loyal Shideharas. is the summer home of the sublime Emperor Hirohito, 125th descendant of the Sun Goddess...
...Aiken has emancipated himself from the all-pervading literary allusiveness that makes Eliot such a self-conscious delight to the initiate, such an uninteresting riddle to the plain...