Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bobby-soxers shrieked, old-timers joyously acclaimed a return to the golden days of vaudeville and theatre manager James Tibbets rubbed his hands in delight over his new minstrel discovery. "Jolson would be proud of that boy," he enthused. "He's one of the best singers I've heard in years...
Toronto's Globe & Mail buried the story on an inside page and looked the other way. The rest of Canada, tired of Toronto's holier-than-thou attitude, howled with delight. The Ottawa Citizen whooped to press with an eight-column, Page One chortler: TORONTO THE GOOD 'MOST WIDE OPEN CITY.' The Ottawa Journal clucked like a mother hen: "Toronto is [just] growing up ... taking on the airs and smells and sounds of a big city. We think it will survive." The unkindest smirk of all lit up the Montreal Herald: "We are presently beaver-busy...
Distribution is not the only problem. The reservoirs are supplied by open ditches in which Indians delight in bathing. Result: contamination that may have been worsened by leakage from the city's sewer system, which dates back to colonial times...
This top-snow, along with the two and a half feet already built up should make wildcat, the Little Head Wall, and the Sherman trail a snow bunnies' delight...
...Coffee Club. Next morning the President engineered one of the little scenes that most delight him. Dropping into the five-&-dime store, in search of Mayor Roger T. Sermon, Harry Truman happily joined the "coffee club" at the soda fountain. Perched on a stool, sipping a nickel Coke, enjoying the giggling confusion of the fountain girl, Harry Truman had the time of his life...