Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horse . . . Burne-Jones was a great artist . . . [Joseph] Conrad [once] challenged me to a duel. Unfortunately, [H.G.] Wells got in the way, otherwise Conrad would have taken his place among the saints . . . When I was a little boy I was always playing the devil. My chief delight was to paint . . . walls . . . with pictures of Mephistopheles . . . As a child dreams, so he becomes ... I was just an odious argumentative young man ... A great man is one whom "you instinctively believe...
...every man to his own taste. - Did not Dr. Kunastrokius, that great man, at his leisure hours, take the greatest delight imaginable in combing of asses' tails, and plucking the dead hairs out with his teeth, though he had tweezers always in his pocket? ... De gustibus non est disputandum" - Laurence Sterne, in Tristram Shandy As far as many U.S. citizens are concerned, biting asses' tails, as a leisure occupation, is not much more inexplicable than a lively taste for modern art, especially if it is abstractionist art. What's more - as Washington's Corcoran Gallery...
...admirers once described as having "the virility of a goat and the delicacy of a flower petal." They sat patiently on the huge, circular dance floor through the preliminary stuff-Ike Carpenter's band, the Bobby True Trio, but when the main event came on they howled with delight. And when 35-year-old, toupee-topped Crooner Frankie Laine finally let them have what they wanted -his bobbing, bouncing Rosetta and By the River Sainte Marie-they were on their feet...
Vanderbilt had the picture purchased and sent to his hotel. When Meissonier came for the next sitting, Vanderbilt . . . said: "I am going to give you that picture."' You may imagine Meissonier's delight, and he did not charge Vanderbilt for the portrait...
...Greece, where the British government had assigned him to the Athens embassy as first secretary. After 18 months he returned to London with his standards intact and a sheaf of sketches of what he had seen. The result is a handsomely and pointedly illustrated travel book that will even delight readers to whom the word "Acropolis" recalls nothing but a tiresome, quickly forgotten history lesson...