Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sure enough, Evening won. But the joy of his thousands of backers turned sour as Bolsheviks learned what happens in pari-mutuels when a favorite wins. After the State had taken its fat percentage there was just enough left to return to each better on Evening exactly the sum he had bet. Only real winners were the Soviet stables which entered the four leading horses. Among them the State divided a purse of 30,000 rubles, part to be used in paying bonuses to drivers, trainers and stable boys of the winning mounts. Evening's driver, called "Citizen Pianov...
Good St. Anne, by all the suffering and ignominy which thou didst endure, during the 20 years that preceded thy glorious maternity, by thy love for St. Joachim, thy glorious spouse, by thy love for Mary, thy immaculate child, and by the great joy thou didst feel at the moment of her birth, I beseech thee to grant my ardent request...
...Joy Ride- At St. Ansgar, Iowa last week were gathered 2,000 people to see the town's first Fourth of July celebration in 20 years. They saw a plane lose a piece of wing fabric, spin dizzily into the town's main street, burst spectacularly into flames. Incinerated were the pilot and four joyriders, one a woman...
Bread may be scarce, but there is no lack of circuses for Nazi Germany. As a respite from parades and speeches 980 good German workmen and their wives, all members of the Nazi "Strength Through Joy" Society, last week piled into excursion trains and went trundling third class across Germany from the Saar and Palatinate to Bremen. There they crowded aboard the 15,000-ton North German Lloyd liner Dresden for a cruise up the coast of Norway to the North Cape. Late into the night the Strong-Through-Joy danced, sang Nazi songs, drank fat-bellied mugs of beer...
...writers were summoned to a meeting at which Col. Jason Joy warned that any of them working on a Fox picture would be held responsible for moral criticism leveled at the final product...