Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light sane joy of life, buckler of Gaul...
...Prize was taken for granted by the Norwegian press. The influential Aftenposten went on to urge that, without waiting for the next scheduled date for the Nobel award-December 10, anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel-the committee should "immediately" give Mr. Chamberlain the prize (about $40.000). Norwegian joy at the peace was such that all Oslo school children were given a holiday...
Munich crowds, which had cheered Mussolini and then Daladier to the echo as they departed, went wild with shrieks, roars and tears of joy as Neville Chamberlain finally returned to his hotel and gave-what correspondents termed almost unprecedented for a British Prime Minister-an informal interview. Incredulous at this break, newshawks found Neville Chamberlain seated at a desk, sipping a cup of coffee and rolling a cigar between his lips with evident satisfaction. He shoved across the desk a copy of a communiqué to be issued in the names of himself and Adolf Hitler: "We regard the agreement...
...Rome offers nothing so bomb-bursting as his last season's Sing Me a Song with Social Significance, nothing so hilarious as his Chain Store Daisy. Only once could a first-night audience, half drawn from Who's Who and half from the Social Register, roar with joy: when a packed stageful of Negroes shagged, capered, clapped, galumphed, jumped up & down in a great spontaneous whirl of excitement...
...accepted. Repeatedly correspondents have described Herr Hitler as bringing on the Czechoslovak crisis: primarily to break up the Russo-Czech-French alliance; secondly to get control of the Sudeten Mountains which have barred his "Push-to-the-East"; and only lastly because of the joy it would give all Germans to feel that their "Sudeten brothers" have been rescued from the euphemism of "Czech oppression...