Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid transports of joy Chancellor Hitler announced that henceforth the Reichstag will no longer meet in liberal, proletarian Berlin but in imperial, aristocratic Potsdam. On April 1 the new Reichstag will convene for business in the Garrison Church at Potsdam, a national military shrine in which Frederick the Great lies buried...
...bring automatic corrections . . . thus freeing the brains of the populace from the details of bare existence and opening up wider fields for adventure and achievement." Certain difficulties arise, of course, when the economic system is made too nearly like the body: these details, however damning in the eyes of Joy Street matrons, would not under normal circumstances, interpose any real obstacle to the success of the plan. Should the "new economy," however, fall heir to any of the ills of the flesh, and wander off some day, imagining itself somehow a modern Casanova, the results would be most painful...
...Lisieux. famed Thérèse Martin who died in 1897. Later M. Chéron was six times Mayor of Lisieux in Normandy, zealously promoted the I. S. L. F. (International Society of the Little Flower). In 1925 the Society and M. Chéron knew boundless joy when Thérèse of Lisieux was officially canonized in Rome as St. Thérèse of the Infant Jesus...
Still living in Memphis last week, Sister Mary Magdalen heard with joy that her recovery had helped bring her prayer nearer to realization. In Vatican City a decree was read to Pope Pius XI approving the authenticity of this and another miracle performed through Venerable Mary Pelletier. As result she will probably be beatified, titled "Blessed," during the coming Holy Year. Then, if more miracles are attested, she may be canonized...
...When one night a friend hinted that a meeting might be arranged, Garry jumped at the chance. At the meeting Tully asked Garry to sign a manifesto that would mean arrest and certain death to two of the signers. Garry agreed without batting an eye. In Mount joy Prison he and Tully were put in the same cell; they were to be shot in the morning. To his astonishment Garry discovered that Tully's real name was Tulloolagh: she was a woman. The night passed differently from what he had expected. And at dawn he and Tulloolagh were released...