Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: The cockles of my ole heart surged with joy, and I hurrahed and voiced my feelings at, the top of my voice when I saw the picture of "Lindy" at last adorning TIME. . . . It must be that the Editor of TIME is a seer who looks into the future, and who believes in keeping the best to the last and making the most appropriate statements in the most logical TIME...
...sometimes look back and shudder at the cruelty of ancient and medieval times. We wonder how human beings possessing the average allotment of sanity could ever have taken such fiendish delight in the torture of prisoners or the persecution of martyrs. But what assurance have we that the joy of witnessing pain is a trait of the past? A certain recent event, among other things, makes some of us wonder...
Hoover men, fearful already lest they get their man too far in front too soon, mostly dissembled the joy that Senator Edge had given them. But dissembling was hard, because: Senator Edge's first cousin is President Walter Clark Teagle of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; oil companies have offices near Wall Street; if Wall Street takes to Hoover, so can politicians...
Those hardy souls who, if a loftier goal than mere enjoyment did not detain them in Cambridge, would be enjoying the sled runs of Chamonix the toboggan slides of Quebec or even the ski jump at Hanover, can now find a slightly milder joy on the river. From the Lars Anderson Bridge up to Watertown the ice is frozen, and one may choose whether he will frequent the brightly-lighted, windswept expanse near Newell, or go adventuring among the dark coves beyond the infirmary...
...Benjamin Joy, to partnership in J. P. Morgan et Cie. of Paris, but not of J. P. Morgan & Co. of Manhattan (the parent organization). Immediately upon the announcement Mr. Joy, once a vice president of the Bankers Trust Co. of Manhattan, resigned his affiliation with Dillon, Read & Co., and sailed for Paris...