Word: delight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dismay of sensitive folk and the delight of the pugnacious, the audience hissed, hissssed. Ironically, Conductor Stokowski motioned his men to rise, to receive an ovation never given. The few faithful who remained after the interval heard Mozart's G minor Symphony and the Third Leonore Overture...
Only three things break into the Senator's smooting: 1) vaudeville; 2) golf; 3) the Washington Zoo. For diversion this stern man went every Friday night to Keith's Theatre to sit in the second row just behind the orchestra leader and gaze over the footlights in unsmiling delight. Great was his sorrow when the theatre closed. His golf came at the age of 63. Now from 6 to 7 a. m. he plays a round on the capital's public links, shooting 110 in straight cautious jabs. At the Washington Zoo Senator Smoot liked to poke around among...
When the Canadian schooner I'm Alone, freighted with 2,800 cases of liquor to be smuggled into the U. S., went down 200 miles off the Louisiana shore under U. S. Coast Guard gunfire last fortnight, inter- national law experts were ready to stand up and cheer with delight (TIME, April 1). Here was a case to argue endlessly. It bristled with fine points, with nice distinctions. Many an analogy was drawn between rum-running in 1929 and African slave-running...
...practical U. S. Government did not share in this delight of theorists. It sought only to justify the sinking legally, not morally. England, Canada and France anxiously watched its efforts...
Actress Anglin's discreet linking of voice and gesture is in the grand tradition of acting, a rare delight in the modern theatre. But Playwright Esme Wynne-Tyson's gusts of passion are too like the winds of old melodrama. They proceed from an artificial churning contraption...