Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father, Secretary Cleland Boyd McAfee of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, Mildred McAfee is a "distinctly Christian" joy. Less from austerity than from habit, she does not drink, smoke or play cards. But she enjoys the cinema, likes to dance. In her spare time she knits, and, like Ellen Fitz Pendleton, writes an occasional detective story...
...Commander Erich Raeder an admiral-general (something new). Colonel-general and admiral-general were also promoted to full Cabinet rank. To the smiling group in the Chancellery, suffused with pink German sentiment, the Führer readily launched into oratory: "On this day I look back with pride and joy upon the years that lie behind us. ... Our miraculous resurrection fills me with deep gratitude toward all those who, by their faithful cooperation, have made possible my successful leadership of the nation. ... By reason of this revitalization of our national strength I feel we shall better be able to preserve...
Last week to the amazement of Democrats and the joy of arch-Republican Publisher McCormick, Rhode Islanders squashed the possibility of a convention by a vote of 98,383-to-87,034. More amazing still were returns showing that, had the convention been held. Democrats would have controlled it by four votes...
...were in a nightmare, now as if he were in a lecture hall, the spectator watches Clyde's progress through his uncle's collar factory, his break with the workers in the drying room, his seduction of Roberta, his bashful meeting with Sondra, his wild joy when Sondra proposes to him, his wild despair when Roberta tells him she is going to have a baby. In a final burst of speed, the drama skips the actual murder, winds up with a half-symbolic, half-realistic trial scene, which concludes with the voices of the jury sending Clyde...
...eight other lines. Greyhound's boom brought not joy but envy. Forgathering...