Word: delightfully
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...hour she strolled languidly from the clubhouse. A champion's arrogance, decided the gallery. Followed the boohs, the hisses. Play began. Miss Wills, despite her poker face, was unnerved by her reception. The British women won the first set 6-0. The rowdies in the gallery roared their delight. Now thoroughly possessed by mob savagery, they jeered linesmen for unpopular decisions, roared down the umpire who tried to silence them, seemed, to feel little aggrieved to see the match, the series, the Wightman Cup, go to the British Women...
...this moment a second bear gave a grunt of ecstatic delight and lumbered off full speed after the first. The ball gave a dying flop and settled in a rut. The first bear fell over it and the second bear fell over the first. Then began a battle for the ball which was "torn to shreds...
...puffing, chewing the butt, spurting forth smooth smoke-curls and rich juices as the philosophical fruits of his rumination, Humorist Cobb drawls on and on about intoxicants, ancestors, being homely, the zoo, national holidays, Christmas presents "and so forth." Very different from "chewing the rag." He is the delight of a vast audience that relishes: an elaborate Southern simile- (false teeth that clattered) "like a fox-trotting horse with a loose shoe crossing a covered bridge;" an unexpected wise-crack-"King George the Fifth and Queen Mary the Four Fifths;" a sensible suggestion-floor lights, clothes ockers, tractable windows, longer...
...fiddled at the combination of the vault in the Citizens' Bank. From inside the vault came a faint tinkle of breaking glass. The yeggs gagged, struggled for breath, staggered out of doors, undetected but quite through with safecracking for that night. Next morning, the bank officials beamed with delight at the evidence of foiled foul play and the efficiency of a fragile flask of Lewisite* they had had installed in the vault by a Chicago firm. Other bankers hastened to ask questions, order flasks of Lewisite for their own protection. Other yeggs scowled at the thought of having...
There are many grains of sand in an hourglass and they fall singly, but eventually the hour is passed. So with the hour of crossword puzzles. Last week, the Daily News (Manhattan), following its parent, The Chicago Tribune (TIME, July 6), ceased publishing the little gems of geometric delight...