Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week small, spry, white-haired William Wattis was in San Francisco's St. Francis Hospital taking the Coffey-Humber cancer treatment when word reached him that his company had won the contract to build Hoover Dam. His jolly blue eyes snapped with delight. Wrapped in his bathrobe, and puffing a big, black cigar he talked eagerly...
...care that has been wasted staging it. Lester Vail joins the Foreign Legion to find Ralph Forbes and bring him back to Loretta Young. He gets to him just in time, for Forbes is dying in a desert grain pit. Beau Ideal's swaggering Legionnaires will delight only those who thought Beau Geste was the best picture ever made. Best shot : court-martial of Ralph Forbes...
...other well-meaning compliment would so surely annoy Artist Luks. A beefy, lusty fellow, in excellent health, he realizes as well as any of his critics that he is now doing the best work of his career, takes great delight in defending the accomplishments of middle age over the showy triumphs of youth...
...tenderest freshmanhood it develops, nor ought we to affect surprise. Almost everything about the usual university works toward making him feel small; instead of seeing an establishment got up for him and ingratiatingly placed at his disposal, it appears rather to delight in minimizing his importance--with the natural result. Dwindling in his own eyes, he reasserts himself, though that is at first a bit difficult. He cannot subtract one cubit from the stature of those collegiate halls whose very size and costliness and grandeur overawe and humiliate him. He cannot lighten by so much as an ounce the pressure...
...Scatter thou the people that delight in war."-Psalms...