Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what it means, what one is supposed to feel about it, was vastly facilitated by these performances. It was the first time the music had been visually translated in the U. S. by choreography. Music lovers whose inner selves had before this leapt up in convulsions of inarticulate joy or horror at Stravinsky's colossal strains, were supplied with a concrete ideology for their raptures or protests. No patience for the average soul's necessity to articulate has Composer Stravinsky. A poet of barbarism, he describes his outpourings as abstract sound; scorns, protests all attempts to translate...
...join in hailing "Copey." He cannot be different at seventy from himself at sixty or at fifty. Doubtless he wears the same mustard suits, has the same temperamental aversion to drafts, the same outmoded predilection for Kipling and Dickens, and the same sadistic joy in making a late comer to his class or reading room miserable. He cannot have changed. And in days when second-rate academicians clutter the pages of "Who's Who" with learned degrees, and still bore their students; when university statisticians reckon in card catalogues the efficiency records of the faculty members, it is good...
Cartoonist George McManus (Bringing Up Father) made known that he would draw and explain his characters ("Jiggs," ''Maggie" et al.) to a Manhattan Methodist congregation to accompany Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner's sermon, "Fun & Joy...
...scholarly Emperor Hirohito, stood on the ramparts of Tokyo's Imperial Palace and saw a third of the city burning up and shaking down. Nero would have enjoyed the sight, not so Hirohito. But last week his Majesty ascended the same eminence and had proper cause for imperial joy. The whole area of the "Great Fire" (see map) which accompanied the quake of 1924 has been substantially if not elegantly rebuilt...
...Abode of Daughters of Joy," among the most sumptuous quarters in New Tokyo, and the first to be completely rebuilt. Not in the fire area was the smart residential district near the Imperial Palace and the Akasaka Palace (8) of Crown Prince Chichibu...