Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...muggs, legmen and copy-deskers alike, soon made Variety the richest word-coining mint of the century, to the bafflement of laymen and the delight of language fans like H. L. Mencken and G. B. Shaw. Some of its headlines (such as its 1929 crash flash, WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG, and its STIX Nix Hix Fix, when bucolic cinemas' flopped in the hinterland) have attained a kind of backstage immortality. So have flopperoo, push over, palooka, scram, to click; and such trade phrases as "boff" (a variation of sock or punch) for smash hit, "preem," as a verb...
...Main Street in your own town and count the drunks and smell the liquor; does it shock you? Nauseate you? If those at home can do it, why not the boys who bled and fought for you? Instead of running down the American youth as you seem to delight in doing, you should thank your God that it is Americans running wild in Europe and not Nazis and Japs running wild...
Heart's Content. The Newfoundlanders have lived simply, in such villages as Heart's Content and Heart's Delight, Seldom Come By and Come By Chance. They dotted their 6,000 miles of deeply indented coastline and the spruce and fir-studded hinterland with modest frame houses, often surrounded by little flower and vegetable gardens. Most made their living by codfishing; others went down into the submarine depths of Bell Island to mine iron ore. Still others cut pulpwood for the paper mills at modern Grand Falls and Corner Brook...
...reign of Yü in China, so the legend goes, a man named I Ti found out how to make wine. The discovery was ' important enough to show the Emperor's daughter; with small cries of delight, she took it straight to the throne of her father Yü. The Emperor sipped, narrowed his eyes, and poured the wine on the ground saying, "The day will come when this thing will cost someone a kingdom...
...through the war, the Harvard and M.I.T. laboratories, just a mile apart, carried on a friendly but deadly serious rivalry: the Tech Radiation lab developed better and better radars, and the Harvard R.R.L. produced better and better jammers. From the roof of the Bio Lab, the Harvard technicians took delight in jamming Tech radars across the roof tops of Cambridge...