Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once tutor to Rumania's present King Carol II, foxy old Professor Nicholas Jorga could not repress last week a public crow of joy...
...joy day, Premier Jorga said that a rich American had just offered to found an Institute of International Affairs at Bucharest. "His name is Mr. Chester D. Pugsley," said Professor Jorga, "and he lives in the city of Peekskill in the State of New York. I have been happy to accept on behalf of the Royal Government this magnificent offer." Diligently down a column of Who's Who, Lawyer-Banker Pugsley itemizes his 16 principal charitable bequests which foot up to a total $538.400, plus "40 oil portraits to institutions...
...Treasury officials were not exactly bluffing, but they put forward their full demand as a start in the conversations, and to their surprise Mr. Baldwin said he thought the terms were fair, and accepted them. If all business was as easy as that there would be no joy in its pursuit. But this crude job, jocularly called a 'settlement,' was to have a disastrous effect upon the whole further course of negotiations on international War-debts. The United States could not easily let off other countries with more favorable terms than she had exacted from...
...select the Perfect Program. Last week he announced that when he leads the Philharmonic Symphony for the benefit of unemployed musicians April 28, his idea of perfection will be Parsifal, the Prelude and the Good Friday music, followed by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with its soaring Ode to Joy. Toscanini also cabled his choice of soloists: Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Contralto Margaret Matzenauer, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Basso Ezio Pinza...
...more, he picked little red hips from wildrose shrubs, stuffed them into the serpent's jaws. Going away he looked back, saw some magpies flying around the place; one was perched on the serpent's head, seemed to be pecking into the jaws. "A feeling of boundless joy descended on me. I did not know...