Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that 1) his son is born. 2) the bank closes its doors because he, the teller, has certified $400,000 worth of dubious checks. The son grows up to look exactly like Richard Dix. He goes to War, becomes an ace, causes his grandmother to die of joy when he returns. The picture ends in the panic of 1929, with old Richard Dix in shaggy makeup signing over $5,000,000 to young Richard Dix to keep the bank from going under...
...cost or who set up its comfortable endowment fund?an amount not for publication. There have been many contributors, most of them small. But much came from such potent capitalists as the Messrs. Charles Burrall Pike (the Society's president) and Potter Palmer, the late Julius Rosenwald, Vincent Bendix, Joy Morton. Director for the past five years has been professorial L. Hubbard Shattuck, who dislikes his first name, will not reveal...
...what he missed in not being born in the Middle Ages missed-but that is a detail. The Vagabond's heart longs for the sight of glistening helmets and of faire ladyes beneath silken canopies, for the savor of oxen roasted whole in the castle hall, for the hilarious joy of skating with all London on the frozen Thames. But most of all his heart longs for the sight of a Friar Tuck downing his ale in a country tavern...
Seven seconds, which seemed like an eternity, was the actual launching time. Enormous chains slowed the Normandie lest she slide too far and crash into a cement wall at the other end of her basin. She did not crash. St. Nazaire went wild with joy. St. Nazaire workmen will be busy for another 18 months installing the innards of the Normandie...
...last week Dr. Newton's "Everyday Religion" was running in nine Midwestern and Southern newspapers. "Everyday Religion," explained Dr. Newton in his first piece, "is dedicated to take the stuff of life and find out how it can be fashioned into shapes of beauty and power and joy...