Before that, pretty much any televised award ceremony had an army of delightful ladies in pretty frocks doing the honours.
One GP, in a referral letter, called her 'this delightful young lady'.
Ms. Goldsmith likes to recall a passage from her grandfather's memoirs: "He said: 'Today I met a delightful young lady called Audrey Hepburn.
How delightful that Lady Colin Campbell is appearing on the new series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here.
Oh yeah, that's right – Whitney Houston! "She's a delightful, talented lady," Griffith confirms, "and she's gonna be around for a long time".
At various points in the song it's used to represent his penis ("I've got a motorcycle, it feels so delightful"), her lady parts ("She's got a motorcycle, why won't she let me ride it?) and, in the song's thrilling conclusion, an anthropomorphised Harley-on-Harley tryst ("I knew one day I'd fill you up, on my motorcycle").
Here's hoping that one of the delightful young ladies on "SciGirls," a new series under the PBS Kids Go! banner, grows up to be tech-savvy enough that she figures out how to remove annoying animated interlopers from otherwise excellent television programs.
Warren Beatty, "absolutely delightful" in Rome, asks Lady Antonia, "Do you have a sister?", a cartoon of himself.
"She was a delightful, happy, wonderful young lady," said Jerry Hogan, one of her agents.
