Word: delight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt took delight in "scooping" the correspondents assigned to cover him on news of the arrival in Seattle of his No. 5 grandson, a 9-lb. 1-oz. Boettiger...
...craving of these goldfish cultists," explained Chicago's Consulting Psychologist Robert N. McMurray, "really is for public acclaim, that is, exhibitionism. The eater of goldfish takes delight in the repulsiveness...
...detective-story writer (The Viaduct Murder), for twelve years Roman Catholic chaplain at Oxford University, is Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 51, one of England's three most urbane and influential Catholic priests.* Published in the U. S. this week was Monsignor Knox's latest book, Let Dons Delight.†. To many a reader, Catholic and non-Catholic, this work will bring delight. To others, including many U. S. Catholics who find it difficult to comprehend the lightheartedness and apparent irreverence of their European coreligionists, the book will be shocking...
...Dons Delight is a series of dialogues among imaginary dons in an imaginary Oxford College (Simon Magus), taking place at 50-year intervals from 1588 to 1938. In the early passages, Monsignor Knox does not spare his readers the "brutish superstitions" and the "idolatrous mass-altars" which were the phrases of anti-Catholics. Nor, later, does he disdain to write comedy...
...part is ideally suited to his happy-go-lucky Americanism. Because she modeled her Russian Countess entirely too much on Lynn Fontanne's characterization, Norma Shearer is not so successful. Her Irene lacks the spontaneity of Gable's Harry Van. Yet with all its short-comings, "Idiot's Delight" is sustained by its immediacy of theme and powerful conflict of points of view. It is far above the average Hollywood production...