Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beer-loving Germans, Hermann is a delight. Besides putting away quantities of champagne, burgundy, hock, whiskey, brandy and assorted liqueurs, he quaffs beer by the quart out of huge stone mugs. He will paw nearby females with hearty indiscrimination when carrying a load of Pilsner...
Educators delight in continually toying with education. Last week the spotlight was held by President Hutchins of the University of Chicago, who suggested that the A.B. degree be awarded after the first two years of college, so that those students who wish to study in earnest may specialize during the remaining two years. This week's highlight is the news from the convention of the American Association of Junior Colleges, where one of its speakers, Dr. James M. Wood, proposed that universities release their sophomore and freshman classes to the junior colleges, as the universities are not equipped to offer...
From the Nile Delta last week Archeologist Pierre Montet sent word he had found the tomb of King Psousennes I. The discovery caused crows of delight from Egyptologists, because up to last week no royal tomb of the 21st Dynasty had been located...
...Lancet is an excellent weekly medical journal; but it is British. Its lucid medical articles delight U. S. medicos; its self-consciously lighter vein also delights them. Every week since the war began the Lancet has devoted a pasture-page to "our peripatetic correspondents," for gripes, wisecracks, sentimental reflections. Last week a peripatetic correspondent sounded off on British medical society dinners...
...State and Orpheum, Kenneth Roberts has the help of Technicolor, gorgeous location scenes, Spencer Tracy, and Robert Young. Tracy plays the superman of frontier tall tales, Major Rogers of Rogers' Rangers, who performs stupendous feats of leadership on a handful of parched corn a day. It is a delight and a pleasure to see him take an overwritten part like this and make it convincing. Robert Young fares less well as a romantic hero, a Harvard man who ran away from college to paint Indians, and who can make fifteen miles a day with Rogers' Rangers even though his stomach...