Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rockefeller Sr. But in a flower show sponsored by the Halifax Garden Club of Daytona Beach, Fla., near his Ormond Beach winter home, he last week won two blue ribbons for a large basket of deep magenta petunias and a pot of Easter lilies, clapped his withered hands for joy...
...desperado of the old school is "Scarface Al," plundering or murdering for the savage joy of crime. He is, in his own phrase, "a business man" who wears clean linen, rides in a Lincoln car, leaves acts of violence to his hirelings. He has an eleven-year-old son noted for his gentlemanly manners...
...Commons: Cheered stalwart William Graham, President of the Board of Trade (equals "Secretary of Commerce"), when he collapsed from joy-shock at seeing his coal bill squeak through committee stage by nine votes, one more than the House gave it at second reading (TIME, Dec. 30). Friends carried out the collapsed President, sent him home for a stiff dose of sleep...
...basis of the White Slave traffic. Young women are promised and young women are paid for dancing, sums which would be "big money" in Europe, but in the Argentine they are so meagre that the dancer becomes the hostess and the hostess the common or uncommon daughter of joy...
Every Sunday morning Manhattan converts assemble at the Ritz or Park Lane resolved upon "unfurling the Flag of Universal Peace," "the diffusion of the ideals of Love, Mercy, Justice, Right and Liberty," "the declaration of the Evangel of Happiness, and Joy...