Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oddeh truck," he suggests. The other truck is hailed and it speeds into position, driven by a weazened little man who cannot conceal his delight at being one of the puller-downers. An extension of the cable is tied to his bumper and presently the two Macks, looking like two obstreperous elephants, are tugging away at the stubborn wall. Heave, Heave. And HEAVE. The wall sways out toward the street and the spectators shrink back. The truck's wheels spin in a last yank...
...made. As Frank Lloyd Wright has gone back to Thoreau for common sense on building (TIME, Jan. 17), MARS architects and engineers invoked the authority of the Elizabethan Sir Henry Wotton, Izaak Walton's fishing companion, whose The Elements of Architecture defined good building as "commoditie, firmeness and delight." A "needs" section of the exhibit contained nothing less than a scheme for remodeling London, notable for its acceptance of the present radiating arterial roads and the insertion of park spaces between them so that a series of "green wedges" would penetrate almost to the centre of the city...
...McCay was an artist in every sense of the word and his cartoons of "Little Nemo" and "Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend" that appeared in Sunday newspaper supplements were the joy and delight of the youngsters of that...
...Thurman Arnold had poured into it all his talents as a trial lawyer, writing an indictment of the ideas of opponents of the New Deal which was calculated to delight all those who already agreed with him and titillate to the point of apoplexy all those who did not. His formula was simple: to turn popular economic beliefs upside down and apply tar with a brush so broad as to hide the occasions when he begged the question and otherwise offended logic...
...things amuse the Australians. One was a comedian named George K. Fortescue. A massive man, he paced the boards in an opéra bouffe of the 90s wearing a gargantuan pink ballet skirt edged with pompons, roaring out feminine lines in full bass. So thoroughly did he delight the fun-loving citizens of Sydney, they gave him an indigenous and characteristic present: a robe made from 80 pelts of the weird duckbill, or platypus. There seems to have been none like it before or since...