Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saint Francis of Assisi, "the Saint of Love," changed "the stern Christian doctrine of the Middle Ages . . . into a message of good cheer." Love was not only "the essence of Francis' life," it was the only path he could conceive of toward wisdom, action, beauty, human brotherhood, and the bridge between...
Last week in Ontario's Supreme Court, a canny Scot Justice named Keiller MacKay gave a decision that all members of the clan Mackay could cheer. He had found his legal assignment harder than it looked: nowhere in British or Canadian law had he been able to find any precedent for knocking out the deed's clause. But he had been able to marshal a shattering array of recent world opinion. As evidence of what most of the world thinks about such things, Justice MacKay cited...
...fair, A chance that is equal with all in the strife, A courage to strive and to dare. And if I should win, let this be the code: With my faith and my honor held high. And if I should lose let me stand by the road And cheer as the winners...
...good cheer was superficial. The seizure had been caused by Ward's refusal to obey a National War Labor Board order for maintenance-of-membership and dues check-off for the C.I.O.'s United Retail Employes Union. When the U.S. Army marched in and literally carried Sewell Avery out, it put the order into effect. Last week Sewell Avery promptly rescinded the order. Said one War Department official: "Hell, Ward's would have stopped the check-off and maintenance if we'd stayed here until the Second Coming. That's why the whole business...
MacNamara won't be there himself, but the rest of the band will, and so will the whole football team and all the coaches, and all the students who want to cheer the team on to victory in tomorrow's game. It's the first football rally of the season, men, and the rendezvous is at the Indoor Athletic Building at 7:30 o'clock tonight...