Word: joy
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this latter preposterous statement that I would disprove, annihilate, subvert - leaving not one stone on another. Of all the emotions that rule mankind, the most universal, the most persistent, is the longing for rest; second to it, and hardly less all-embracing, is the desire for joy, for laughter - the sweet laughter of the Homeric Gods...
...paradise is but a place of laughter and rest, and all our labor under the sun has for sole object rest and joy, whether of satisfied ambition, or of power...
...swamp and renders necessary a new one." How like the playful habit of "our Clarence!" In the eighth, both sides score four runs, a "fat man in a carriage" stopped another hot foul. The ninth was short and gloriously decisive." Lowell makes one run and Harvard three. "Ecstatic joy and tumultuous congratulations for about five minutes." The nine is carried off in triumph. Mr. J. T. Harris presented it in its tent with a superb trophy in the shape of an ebony bat mounted with silver and gold. The umpire, Mr. Hayhurst, gave "perfect satisfaction!" Harvard, 32; Lowell...
...course this is only thoughtlessness on their part; but cannot these men restrain their exuberant joy until their unfortunate neighbors can unite with them in burying all unpleasant reminiscences of the "Semis...
...association are so far apart, each team plays each other team but one championship game each year, and the college teams seldom meet in practice games. Consequently the addition of one or two more colleges to the four already in the association will be greeted with joy by lovers of the game and those interested in its progress among the colleges...