Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This summer Manila has become a mecca for junketing Senators and Repre- sentatives. When Missouri's Senator Hawes, author of the pending independence bill, landed, he was almost overwhelmed with native demonstration of affection and delight. Other Philippine visitors included Senators Oddie and Pittman of Nevada, Patterson of Missouri and Vandenberg of Michigan; Representatives Gibson of Vermont and Dowell of Iowa. Most of them went to the islands with their minds made up for independence. After their visits all except Representative Dowell began to think that freedom might be an economic catastrophe...
...coasted to the curb. Here, thought Guide Hall as he ran forward, was a fat fee. Out of the car's window was stuck a woman's face, its wrinkles beaming delight, its bespectacled brown eyes fairly dancing. "How," she asked, "could you tell...
...TIME, May 19, 1930), Thomas Cook & Sons may well have mourned. But last week pious Burmese crowned their wonder of the world again with gold. The completed job cost $300,000, was rushed through one year and three weeks after the quake. For good measure and added travelers' delight, diamonds were set into 2,500-year-old Shwe Dagon's new crown...
...Bohemian Club's jolly grove near San Francisco, Pedagog Butler and Banker Crocker have been regaling each other across the continent, exchanging things they find amusing. Sometimes they send jokes, sometimes crank letters; but mostly clippings of those little boxed stories called "freaks"' which are the delight of make-up men striving to fill holes on their front pages. Explained Banker Crocker: "Dr. Butler is very human. We have found our friendly interchange by mail has helped to make life worth living. Sometimes they come daily, sometimes a rather longer period elapses, but it is never a great...
Mademoiselle Dorsay, who was obviously put into the cast to delight the masculine element in the audience, and to bring love life to the Swede, succeeded in doing both quite thoroughly. For the rest, the producer hired a lot of gentlemen with broken noses and created another gang-land picture. Mr. Lemon was a very simple Swede. Mr. McGee was a very complicated and very hard thug, whose cigars were of the definite variety. Both were Mr. Brendel. Both became involved with Miss Dorsay, calling her "Mees Yulee", or "that skoit" antiphonally. Both finally came to blows, and Mr. Brendel...