Word: delightfully
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...rose throws her garlands for delight...
...golf clubs and tennis racquets with him, and in his schedule he has allowed time for meeting students of the various institutions which he visits on the links and on the squash and tennis courts. In a recent lever from an English resort, the Lord Bishop expresses great delight at having devoted seven hours of the previous day to fishing, and having caught four salmon...
Holidays are really anachronisms, made vital by the fact that there is still, even in the college mind, a semplance of schoolboy delight in staying away from class. The baneful part is that the vacation is so limited as to be practically useless. Even the senior must return for his first class, remain for his last. Yet most undergraduates would defend them. One cannot lose conventionally in a fortnight...
...holiday. Of course one could suggest that remembrance of anyone is not necessarily the mental pleasure of a day that this time could be with profit, added to Christmas vacation. But few would agree. One must honor one's ancestors, and a slay without classes is such a true delight...
...ancient citadels, the intrigue of Bourbon-breath'd henchmen, the moneyed powers, the lovely Senorita de Avila who dies heroically so that Peter may live. Filibuster Walker, as some may recall, spurns the aid of the mighty Commodore Van- derbilt. So the Commodore who spits tobacco to the delight of Manhattan street-cleaners thwarts the destiny of Mr. Walker. In Honduras there is a final "spectacle"-a firing squad . . . the limp body of the destiny-man ... a clatter of hoofs . . . the sparing of Peter, who returns to Manhattan, to the waiting arms of Lydia van Ruysdyck. They marry...