Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...numerous of Cleland's work are borders and title pages in the Renaissance spirit-filigrees of twining tendrils, urns, cherubs, plaques, a gay, lacy profusion of Italianate ornament. Of these his book is full, together with title pages, vignettes, elaborate initials, bookplates, watercolors. It is a book to delight lovers of meticulous, traditional beauty...
...WORLD'S DELIGHT-Fulton Oursler -Harper...
Gloria Swanson, cinemactress, Europe-bound to see her latest husband, James Henri la Baily de la Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye, squealed with delight at a present in her steamer stateroom. Within a gilt-edged, blue-ribboned box, wreathed with laurel, lay an antique bottle labelled: Bethlehem Rye, Guaranteed Twenty Years Old. She sent for charged water, ice, glasses, corkscrew. She held the bottle to the light to admire its tawny contents. The bottle was empty...
...alarm of British diehards and the delight of U. S. seadogs, several British periodicals picked up this suggestion and pressed it editorially. Britain's "bases" at Bermuda, Nassau, Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados constitute moral if not actually military threats to the Panama Canal...
...more intense feeling ever can be. Popular recognition of the value of tutorial work has become far too general among Harvard men for them to bother with any very vigorous attack upon a society which still places its emphasis upon a form of effort which has always been the delight of a certain serious sort of adolescent mind...