Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JOY GIRL-John V. A. Weaver-Knopf...
John Van Alstyn Weaver attracted attention eleven years ago when he began hammering sabre-cuts of U. S. vernacular into iambic pentameter (In American). Since that time he has married Actress Peggy Wood, journeyed to Hollywood to convert some of his literary kudos into negotiable currency. His third novel, Joy Girl, is one of the fruits of his Hollywood venture...
...night and fell in love with her over the next morning's toast. He decided that under her comely exterior beat a heart of gold. He made her throw over her job, memorize Shakespeare, dress properly. He got her in the movies. She became "America's Joy Girl." the nation's current epitome of sweetness & light with a dash of innocent fun. Thereupon her creator fell on evil days. Miss Schaeffer spurned his attentions, betrayed him right & left, refused his belated offer of marriage, had him beaten up. On the night that she was to announce...
...what does the Vagabond do, you will ask? There are any number of things he can do. He can spade in the garden, or ride a horse, or go swimming, or talk to urchins, but he mostly sits, or "goes singin' like the mornin' stars for joy that he was made." And there is, too, in New Hampshire a wine of the country that used to be made from Russets, but now is ground from Baldwins. Boys at college distil it and call it applejack, but the farmers of New Hampshire keep it in a 50-gallon keg and call...
With no real joy do Canada's eight other medical faculties behold McGill's good fortune. The University of Toronto, nearest rival, consoles itself with the fact that to its professors was given Canada's first & only Nobel Prize, the 1923 one in Medicine, for the discovery of Insulin, diabetes specific...