Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public is all wrong about the B.L.S.," said Tycoon McGarrah last week. "It imagines that the chief function of the institution is to collect German payments and distribute them to the debtor nations. This now amounts to only 20% of the business of the B. I. S.I) With the joy of a great man doing a great work that is fairly booming along. Gates W. McGarrah told guests at a bankers' banquet that: 1) The B. L S. may some day become the central depository for all the gold of all the world's central banks; 2) Already...
...strong part of the Hoover legend is his love of children. Last week he sadly recited the above figures to his convention. Yet he was optimistic. "That we be not discouraged let us bear in mind that there are 35,000,000 reasonably normal, cheerful human electrons radiating joy and mischief and hope and faith. Their faces are turned toward the light-theirs is the life of great adventure...
...Athens, Greece, Peter Kulaxides, about to take to himself his eighth bride, was arrested & charged with having done to death the preceding seven. He explained: Wife No. 1 died of excitement & joy when he was released from jail after a long incarceration. The next five he did not kill. Wife No. 7 he murdered because she had told him lies...
...vocal organ by which industry sings its songs of beguilement. . . . You have stirred the lethargy of the old law of supply and demand. . . . You also contribute to hurry up the general use of every discovery in science and every invention in industry. . . . Your latest contribution to constructive joy is to make possible the hourly spread of music, entertainment and political assertion to the radio sets in 12,000,000 homes. . . . The public has come to include you in the things we bear in life...
...make pictures for the joy of doing. It is not work, it is pleasure, it is joy. We do not say to ourselves 'Now we will spend so much on a moving picture.' We say, 'We will make the best that is in us. We will dream over it, we will toil over it, and if we put our hearts into it we will make something that will entertain and inspire the American public...