Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skeet tries to duplicate the typical hunting situation of pointing dog, tense gunner, unpredictable game birds. Unlike trap-shooters, skeeters may not raise gun to shoulder until the target appears. That may be any time within three seconds after the shooter cries "Pull." Skeeter Henry Bourne Joy, onetime president of Packard Motor Car Co., has invented an electric variable timer which throws targets with unbiased irregularity...
When we had opportunity to appraise the energies of Colonel Charles R. Apted '06 yesterday afternoon, we were somewhat inclined to regret our previous animadversion re Spanish Trunk labels. It was a joy to behold Harvard's Harried Hawkshaw grouping Newsmen on the front stops of Weld Hall so that F. D. R. Jr. could escape by a back way. There were no interviews, no posed photographs. Even a roommate avoided the stigma of borrowed glory by holding a large cardboard over his face...
...Critic, one may add, finds itself not alone in its joy over the word "difference...
When we saw part of the literary flotsam cast up by last weekend's inundation of the Advocate Building's cellar we were again reminded of how poor a navigator was Miss Emily Dickinson. "There is no frigate like a book," wrote she with, to be sure, great joy but with little sensitivity for the nuances of wet lambskin...
...witnesses. Across the hall nuns vowed to secrecy bent over desks, laboriously making four copies in longhand of all testimony, to be sent to Rome. Every day Monsignor Cioppa distributed hard candies in little silk bags stitched by the nuns, explaining that this was an old Italian custom signifying Joy and Peace. Two miracles are necessary for beatification. In Chicago last week appeared Sister Delfina Grazioli of Seattle who says she had four major operations before December 1925. Given the deathbed rite of Extreme Unction, she saw a vision of mother Cabrini, soon recovered. Next week in Chicago doctors were...