Word: delights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notes flung from the throat of the greatest songster of them all-the Muse's charm flowering in the lonely word, and the essential 'rightness' of this word that is Shakespere's and no other's. Screened through the younger poet's interpretation, we reread the songs with new delight...
What is characteristic of the firm is the character of its chief. Exteriors, sociability, connections mean little or nothing to him. Solitude and brain output thereof is his delight...
...particularly pleased. They obey by instinct Explorer Stefansson's rule: A people react with pleasure to a new food in proportion as they have been accustomed to a varied diet. Accustomed to an unvarying fish, smoked mutton, cheese and potato diet the Icelanders view green vegetables with alarm. They delight, however, in repeating that "Proportional to the number of Icelanders our Reykjavik is the largest capital city in the world!" By this they mean that one quarter of the population is concentrated in Reykjavik, whereas only 1/217 of all U. S. citizens live in Washington...
Thomas Schofield Handforth of Tacoma, Wash., and George Overbury ("Pop") Hart of Coytesville, N. J., and many other places, have the greatest wanderlust of all. Handforth's delight is to sketch shepherds in Arabia and scenes in Tunis; Hart's to watch and sketch cockfights, mandolin players in Mexico and the West Indies, veiled women in Morocco...
...Coalition rallied to beat down a regular Republican effort to bulge the silk tariff. Defeat of this item gave them an especial delight because its chief advocate was Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut whose connection, either naive or bold, with the tariff lobby caused commotion last autumn (TIME...