Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago an unusual store was opened at that location. The store was "The X-Mas Outlet." It was a very nice store even if the idea of cut-rate Christmas has certain sentimental drawbacks. There were shiny cars and golden-haired dolls and smiling, happy salesmen. All this joy was, of course, to be fleeting. The foreshadowing of doom was a bold sign that stood in the front window, "EVERY DAY IS CHRISTMAS WITH US." The store is, of course, no more...
...concerns a vicar who pays an unaccustomed call on a nonchurchgoing family and is rudely rebuffed. Both the vicar and the head of the family die, and after death bicker bitterly about why they did not get along. Then the first scene is played over, this time showing the joy and harmony that result when the family welcomes the vicar...
...Tulsa, fatefully true to form, Margaret promptly got a bookkeeper's job in a doctor's office, enrolled Sheila Joy in a local business college. But her resemblance to the FBI description, played up in the newspapers, aroused the suspicions of the office receptionist, who tipped off the police. Margaret's was an old case in the FBI files. She had been playing the same confidence game across the country and offshore under at least 22 different aliases since 1939. Among the accumulated charges: embezzlement in Honolulu, grand theft in Los Angeles, grand larceny in Vancouver...
Canadians last week enjoyed the mixed blessing of having the world's hardest currency. A brisk international demand pushed the dollar to an alltime high of $1.0611 U.S., bringing joy to Canadian importers, dismay to exporters, and concern to the nation's money managers...
Exquisitely shaped, the vases show the ancient Greeks as they were, their manlike gods and godlike men, their moments of joy and ecstasy, of heroism and erotic abandon. Whether they portray an Olympic race, a night on the town or a musician lost in his art (opposite), the figures have a bouncy, springlike energy that most observers find irresistible...