Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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cabbage patch, a 14-year-old French lad joined us and clapped his hands in delight. An old man picked up a wooden plank and tried to crush the skull of one of a file of German prisoners who were being paraded down the thoroughfare. Men and women leaned on their picket fences and smiled ironically at their erstwhile masters now humiliated before their eyes...
...smooth, husky executive secretary, Paul Lockwood; his press manager, James C. Hagerty,* onetime New York Timesman; Hickman Powell, ex-expert New York Herald Tribune reporter; his Banking Superintendent, Elliott V. Bell, and Secretary of State Thomas J. Curran, who is also Manhattan G.O.P. leader. Last week, to the delight of Democrats, Tom Curran brought out an official Dewey campaign song, to the tune of Yankee Doodle: Oh, Tom E. Dewey came to town A-ridin' on a pony He busted gangs and jailed the mobs And cleared out every phony. Tom E. Dewey keep...
...Time was when a boiled or a poached egg was a delight; but now when hens are fed on scientific messes, a fresh boiled or poached egg is little better than a dose of glue on the stomach and the same goes for all foods which are grown not according to Nature's way but are fed on the formulae of a lot of Whitehall chemists...
...full-page Kats and 10,000 strips. An amazing number of them are the keenest, dizziest kind of inspiration. Wrote Critic Gilbert Seldes of Herriman's work 20 years ago: "In the second order of the world's art it is superbly first rate - and a delight!" Delight was Herriman's strongest point in a world where most artists had lost...
...performance of nutcracker-faced, 56-year-old Barry Fitzgerald, the finest, funniest and most touching portrayal of old age that has yet reached the screen. In so doing, it points the way to the great films which will be possible when Hollywood becomes aware of the richness and delight of human character observed for its own sake...