Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb-scorched Japanese took what cheer they could from two advances in the science of aviation, reported by the Domei news agency...
Besides a moral victory, the Government had little more to cheer about. Alcoa had at one time, the court found, tried to freeze out competing aluminum-sheet plants by charging more than a "fair price" for ingots. And Aluminium, Ltd. had also entered an illegal cartel, through the Alliance of Aluminium Cie. of Switzerland, which restricted imports of aluminum into...
...black limousine. On a roadway near a freshly dug grave it stopped. Inside, Franklin Roosevelt leaned back against the beige upholstery and looked out on a dismal scene. They were burying big, bluff "Pa" Watson, the man whose boisterous laugh and high good humor had never failed to cheer the President. If Franklin Roosevelt's lean, set face showed any emotion, no one could record it. The rain streaming down the windows curtained the man within. He was left to himself, and his thoughts...
...smokers, inhaling more air than they liked last week, there was a sardonic note of cheer. So many cigarets were being diverted into the black market that racketeers grumbled that prices were falling. In Manhattan, where tobacconists guessed that half of all the popular-brand cigarets were being sold over the ceiling, black market wholesale prices were down 30? a carton from the peak...
Power of Suggestion: In Arkansas City, Kans., City Clerk James Clough lay ill in bed, was visited by a friend, the sexton of the Riverview Cemetery, who was soon followed by the pastor of the Central Christian Church. When another friend, who was also an undertaker, dropped in to cheer him, Clough got up, rushed back to work...