Word: joie
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, Joie McCarthy, 5, fell 50 feet, lost two teeth, laughed...
...attending this revue will mean your second or third visit, it may not be all that past memories lead you to expect. For from our carefully amassed comments of theatregoers we find it reported that there is too much sameness in the productions. There is less dash; the joie de vivre seems to have worn...
...gentle as a deer and as ugly as a monkey, little El Ouati, the Algerian Marathon runner who won the Olympic race at Amsterdam last summer came to the U. S. in order to race for Promoter Bill ("Easy") Pickens. Last fortnight in Manhattan, he ran against Joie Ray whom he had beaten, by a last minute sprint, at Amsterdam; with frightened looks behind him and a low scooping stride. El Ouati beat Ray for the second time by seven laps. After this race it was planned to send El Ouati and Joie Ray on a tour...
...obscure also-ran, jugging along in tenth place, eighth place. Suddenly word reached the stadium that a dark little man was passing the leaders as if they were standing still. He crossed the finish line smiling and almost fresh, 150 metres ahead of Miguel Plaza, news vendor from Chile. Joie Ray of the U. S. finished fifth...
...older* than she was at first, flung herself here and there in the motions of a new dance called Pickin' Cotton. Frances Williams shuffled also while she sang a song of which the words were "What d'ya Say?" Creeping forth from his cool cabaret with enhanced joie de vivre, Harry Richman shouted "I'm on the crest of a wave. . . ." As in all of Producer White's assemblies, the footwork in the Scandals was swift and spry, attended to by Tom Patricola, a pair of coordinated sisters, a well-coached chorus, and Producer White...