Word: delightfully
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...Russian revolution was hailed in this country with the most exuberant delight. The mass of people stated with confidence that now Russia was rid of her pro-German autocracy, and would fight unhindered with the other great free peoples of the earth against the thraldom of Germany...
...note with delight your editorial entitled "Compulsory Latin Must Go," as it seems to us the statement of a sage educational policy and is clearly the work of a man who knows the classics well and only turns from them after giving them a thorough trial...
...measure does not argue a necessary absence of sincerity. For, besides the two sorts of sincerity mentioned by this editorial writer as possible in art--the sincerity born of experience and that born of imagination--there appears to be a third, the sincerity, namely, which is born of a delight in mere making and shaping. This delight and this sincerity are of a lower order certainly, but they are prerequisite. Romeo chants his real love for Juliet in the noble language he has learned in sonnetting the shadowy Rosaline. Romeo's creator strikes out that noble language clear and true...
...become leaders of the world in after years, but only once may we be Juniors at the dance. In later times we shall tell our children and our children's children of the glories of that magnificent ball, when the daughters of the gods descended from the heights to delight mortals for one evening...
Miss George is admirable in both plays. Her comedy--for it is only she and Mr. Lawford that lift "Divorcons" into really high comedy--is a delight; and her tragedy in the playlet is simple and absolutely convincing. She is charming to watch--delicate of color and fragilely beautiful--and wonderful to hear--in laugher or tears Mr. Lawford is the perfection of case, distinction, and effectiveness--in him is a touch of the whimsy that pervades Barrie's writings. Mr. Herbert as the well drawn husband is powerful and real in every detail of voice and manner. The surrounding...