Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white, pansy-like orchid with a heart of deep maroon, was christened by John B. Lager, its flower godfather. Forty-eight hours earlier in the great library at Hyde Park, while two candles burned on a small improvised altar, Grandfather Franklin Roosevelt, seated in a great chair, had the joy of seeing a dark-haired baby girl, his eldest son's eight-month-old daughter, baptized. Henceforth child & orchid will bear the same name: Kate Roosevelt...
...Treasury drove up the price of silver (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934) and for months the Chinese people acutely suffered from the deflation this produced in their country. Nevertheless last week the very Chinese statesmen who were wringing their hands and cursing Roosevelt not many months ago joined in expressing joy at the President's reelection. For one thing, Mr. Roosevelt played Santa Claus to China with the thumping U.S.-China cotton Ioan. Proceeds of this are being used by Premier Chiang Kai-shek for public works projects in China as novel and ambitious for that country...
Died. Henry Bourne Joy, 72, onetime (1905-16) president of Packard Motor Car Co.; of heart disease; in Grosse Pointe, Mich. For Packard's Wartime airplane plant he developed the U. S. Army's Selfridge Field air base. For motorists he pushed to completion the Atlantic City-to- Oakland Lincoln Highway (U. S. Route 30), first U. S. transcontinental hard-surfaced highway. A pioneer skeet shooter, he once held a world record of 157 consecutive breaks...
...When the butler's room is about to be searched for missing pearls, she tears through the house like a four-year-old looking for the Christmas tree, deliriously screaming. "Godfrey, Godfrey, hide them if you've got them, the cope are coming!" Later she plunges about in furious joy, convinced that Godfrey loves her because he put her, dressed in evening clothes, into the cold shower. But, there being no intention to slight that genius of suavity, William Powell, it must be conceded that none other could preserve the impeccable dignity that characerizes him throughout the picture, and gives...
Sirs: What's this I hear about your being on the air only one night a week? The half hour part is fine, but the once-a-week part takes a lot of joy out of life. If you only knew what a body blow it is to lose this splendid program...