Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where, then is the need for a big navy, or for that matter any navy at all? Perhaps some, like President Roosevelt, find them charming pleasurecraft, and like to review these little toy ships. Others may get a destructive joy out of breaking a perfectly good champagne bottle on steel, with an associated delight in thinking how easily the pop-guns overhead can snuff out lives and happiness. But it is impossible to subscribe to the logic of our esteemed contemporary, whose editors apparently believe that all of the people can be fooled all of the time by a trick...
...essence, this was the keynote of Britain's Victoria more than half a century ago. The great Queen, with her pride in British valor and her joy that backward peoples should have the benefit of British rule, has a superficially different but basically similar counterpart in the Dictator of 1935, with his rousing trumps to Fascist valor and his real conviction that Ethiopians are savages who can properly be brought under Italian rule...
This long-awaited declaration of Britain policy was received with unrestrained joy by the Laval government in Paris. It should have been. If France had been asked to write the speech herself she could not have performed more satisfactorily. Now that there is assurance that Mussolini will not be stopped by force. Mr. Laval can continue to announce that a peaceful solution of the Ethiopian affair will be arrived at any day. The gentlemen at Geneva can continue to vote drastic economic sanctions, by which the whole world is supposed to close its doors to Italy, while sanctions are actually...
...faith, come down, reveal the things of God; And make to us the Godhead known, and witness with the blood. 'Tis thine the blood to apply, and give us eyes to see, Who did for every sinner die, hath surely died for me. The favorite Negro Methodist hymn: Joy is a fruit that will not grow In nature's barren soil; All we can boast, till Christ we know, Is vanity and toil...
...initial success of the Manhattan campaign for less noise brought joy to Ernest Henry Peabody, 66, a combustion engineer. Because John D. Rockefeller Jr., a childhood friend, showed no interest, Mr. Peabody, whose business runs itself, spent $1,500 of his own money on antinoise propaganda, collected $700 from friends, hopes others will help out. He eventually got action out of the Mayor by giving a new name to an ineffectual League for Noise Abatement. The name which Mr. Peabody invented is the League for Less Noise. The old name got no results...