Word: happiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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People who feel sorry for animals in zoos are wasting their sympathies; zoo-bound animals seldom regret their lost life in the wild. If properly housed, fed and entertained, they often lead happier, fuller lives than the humans who come to watch them...
...Cahan's celebration last week, Union Boss David Dubinsky and others praised him as the man who had done more than anyone else to keep the garment workers' union free of Communist influence. When everyone else had finished, old Ab rose to respond, murmured: "I am happier than I ever was in my life. Brothers and sisters, I thank you millions of times." Words failing, he finished by reaching out his arms in a gesture of embrace...
Formosa's 160,000 remaining aborigines are happier, too. They do little work. Some of them sublimate their head-hunting desires by taking monkey skulls; others make a play for the tourist trade with performances of native dances. And now that the harsh days of the Japanese Guard Line are gone, the aborigines are free to wander down to Taipei for an occasional glimpse of civilization...
Helen Bevington often does no better. What makes her one of the pleasantest poetasters around, and Nineteen Million Elephants one of the year's happier books of light verse, is the wise, warm humor of an occasional poem. Some of them are bookish little pieces, with a humor as quiet and decorous as low laughter in a library. Example...
...Paris, 42, pretender to the nonexistent throne of France, saw his beloved Paris for the first time in 25 years. As he motored up to Royalist headquarters on the Rue de Constantine, a small, stouthearted band of the faithful cried: "Vive le roi!" Said the Comte: "I am happier than it is possible...