Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rhythm and music and festive joy will radiate from Leverett House for the second time this season as the Rabbits make merry in their annual Spring Dance, scheduled for March...
Leaping up in joy, the whole Collective Farm Congress huzzaed. Before the day was over Comrade Yakovlev had put his hearers in still better humor, had announced modified capitalistic concessions to the State's own collective farms...
Last week people were again grumbling about the High Cost of Living. But this time it was not so much about the price of shelter and clothing as the soaring cost of food. Headlines proclaimed the farmer's joy that hogs, cattle, butter, eggs were at the highest levels in four and five years. Actually the farmer was not benefiting to any large extent because last summer's Drought had either depleted his livestock or boosted the cost of his feed. Nevertheless, U. S. housewives were mad clear through, and AAA officials even admitted that any further rise...
...While working on the thirty-ninth story of the Chrysler building the other day, I had the great joy of accidentally dropping a full bucket of bright orange paint to the sidewalk hundreds of feet below. . . No, I never bothered to find out whether I hit anyone...
...June 26, 1933, Captain Taudien & friends boarded the stinking but seaworthy Chinese cargo steamer Sheng An near Tientsin. Cried her Russian master Captain Boris Vikhmann, "Ah, my good friend Captain Taudien, this voyage will be a joy!" In five minutes the German had persuaded the Russian to trust him and his friends for their passage money to Foochow (1,500 miles), where the Sheng An was to deliver a cargo of coal...