Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left alone on a shattered ticket. Senator Grundy was furious. At first he thought of quitting also. His pride was pricked. He could imagine the yelps of delight that would go up from low-tariff States if he eliminated himself. He decided to make the race, come what might...
...eyes of Edward Laurence Doheny, 73, California oilman, were damp with grateful tears. His cheeks were pink with happy excitement. His back tingled pleasantly where his smart lawyer, Frank J. Hogan, had thumped him in high delight. "Thank you and God bless you!" he cried to the nine men and three women jurors who had just acquitted him of bribery, in the District of Columbia Supreme Court...
...present two trained workers are sending from six to ten feet of brick hurtling down the inside of the chimney each day, with only occasional larger slabs falling outside to delight the casual spectator, and provide material for Film Foundation photographers...
Some years ago Edgar Allen Poe, intrigued by a tinkling sound, burst forth in sundry verses of ecstatic onomatopoeia signifying his rapturous delight in "The Bells". Mr. Poe, an authority on bellish noises, expressed supreme content with all sorts of bells--bells that tintinabulated, bells that gushed voluminous euphony, and even brazen alarum bells that shrieked...
...written every word of their material. They make phonograph records as Amos 'n' Andy and, of their singing, as Correll & Gosden. In 1927 both were married. They are completely absorbed by their work; wherever they go they mingle with Negroes to develop their style and substance. Negroes delight in them because they recreate, not burlesque, the Negro attitude and idiom. Those who have seen them broadcast say that they often have to smother their own laughter (Gosden did it once by dousing a glass of water over his head), and they have more than once been observed with...