Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Courbet did see the world with a childlike directness and delight. He painted it, according to one contemporary, "as simply as an apple tree bears apples." He didn't much like being called a realist-it was a term of opprobrium in some circles in those days, too-but he used to pound on the table and insist that painting was a physical language having nothing to do with history, romance or religion. "Show me an angel," he shouted, "and I will paint...
...easy laughter didn't indicate a vacilating or pliant personality; it was not an invitation to conversation. It was, however, an indication of a very sunny disposition. She can read a lengthy stretch of medieval constitutional law (lapsing occasionally into Latin and Anglo-Saxon) with all the gusto and delight of Mary Margaret McBridge revealing a new recipe for banana cream...
...anonymously lit fire started at 11:30 p.m., drawing heads from all the windows in the yard and screams of delight from the occupants. Lowell House Janitor A1 Roach hurried to the scene with a bucket and the fire died in 15 minutes without any damage resulting...
...week's end, Harry Truman was seized with one of those humane impulses which exasperate bureaucrats but delight citizens. In a newspaper he read about the plight of Mrs. John S. Power, widow of a civilian economist employed by the Army in Berlin. Ten months after her husband's death in a plane crash in Paris, Mrs. Power had still not received his insurance. The President ordered the Veterans Administration to get hopping. The VA grumbled, but hopped. Then the President boarded the Williamsburg for a daylong, family cruise across the green gulf waters to the Dry Tortugas...
From 40 Filing Cases. In Roosevelt and Hopkins, Playwright Robert Sherwood (Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois) has written the best book on World War II by an American. The title belies the vast scope of Sherwood's effort. This is not only the story of Hopkins in the role of personal chief of staff and messenger of F.D.R. It is the one book so far which adequately provides 1) a sympathetic but candid exposition of Roosevelt's domestic, foreign and military dilemmas throughout the war, and how he met them; 2) an informed, balanced...