Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ichabod which today third graders recite in a fumbling monotone on Memorial Day. He also broke forth in trenchant prose with the words, "The God that made New Hampshire taunted that lofty state with little men." Old Boston squatted on its haunches and shook the heavens with ill-concealed joy, some even doubted if God had made New Hampshire...
...always, there is a little pathos in the sentimental farce. Could their steamer but cross the equator southward bound, what joy there would be for the "gobs" and the "girls" at the rites of Neptune, especially if that God of the damp and dripping should unmask and betray the broad, carmen grimace...
...trip was not a highly financed, well organized exploration but more the quest for adventure by four men, only one of whom had had any experience in the jungle. Facing death became such a commonplace that it meant little or nothing and often was approached with a fearless joy for the struggle. Picture the author, confronted at night by two gleaming eyes a few yards down the jungle path, and at a loss what to do, breaking into song and seeing the eyes disappear. Song proved to be a boon to the little band of explorers because at another time...
Colossal Mismanagement. Said Joy Elmer Morgan, chairman of Secretary Wilbur's radio education committee and editor of the Journal of the National Education Association: "There has not been in the entire history of the United States an example of mismanagement and lack of vision so colossal and far-reaching in its consequences as our turning of the radio channels almost exclusively into commercial hands." Since, he said, both radio and cinema portray "the trivial, the sensual, the jazzy . . . we are in vastly greater danger as a people from New Yorkism than from Communism...
...great University were taking themselves and their studies. The net result was most gratifying. Activity was everywhere. Bottles were crashing into the street, "Ten Cents a Dance" was being sung from a room in Randolph in a voice which betokened the existence of something more substantial than the mere joy of existence, while one lone scholar was dangling a Phi Beta Kappa key out of the window while the read his notes on Semitic one squared hf. The Vagabond's head began to whirl. Such industry was not known in his days at college. He wondered what he should advice...