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...Atlantic, and on Connemara's beach the fisherfolk, whipped like so many witless ducks by rain and spray, stood staring out to sea. For there in the darkness, where no land had been before, blinked the thousand lights of the city itself. Young folks squealed with the delight of it, but the old ones crossed themselves and breathed a prayer. "Go sbahailadh dia sinn" (God protect us), they muttered, for hadn't the ancient tale said, too, that when the lost city reappeared, Galway itself would slide under the water? To a Dublin man who tried...
Zhdanov's Finnish disgrace was a delight to his rival Molotov. One anecdote of the period tells how Zhdanov was talking to Stalin in the latter's office in the Kremlin. The phone rang. It was Molotov. Stalin talked to him for some five minutes, but Stalin's part of the conversation consisted in saying "yes, yes, yes" while Zhdanov sweated visibly. Finally, just before he hung up, Stalin said "no, no." Stalin glanced up at Zhdanov, who was looking relieved, and said: "Don't be too happy. He just asked me whether I was having...
There are connoisseurs who go to hockey games just to exult over a weaving solo dash or delight in a well-coordinated scoring play, but rank-&-file hockey fans would still rather hear a player thud against the boards, or see a good fist fight...
...about O'Brien's efforts to clear himself of a murder while simultaneously busting open a huge fraud having to do with forgeries of great art masterpieces. This is the sort of thing that Humphrey Bogart shows up in every year or two, to everybody's huge delight, but the aging O'Brien isn't quite in the same league when it comes to evading cops and prowling in dark rooms...
...market was still full of little Tom Jordans. While ceilings were slapped on other major commodities and trading in the stockmarket was put on a cash basis, cotton had been free as a breeze. It could be bought on approximately a 10% margin; it was the speculator's delight...