Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extraordinary scene witnessed while he was sojourning in a distant wilderness. A hungry native, coming by chance upon a bowl of plantains or beetle larvae or some such delicacy, had thanked his tutelar deity for the good fortune and had dined with gusto. But his gastronomic joy was short-lived. A few hours later, a horror stricken fellow tribesman informed him that he had violated tabu, that he had eaten of the dish destined for the alimentation of his holiness the king. The news struck he poor victim like a charge of the Four Horsemen. He turned pale. His knees...
...interview with the CRIMSON. Briggs whose drawings are published in over 175 American newspapers, is the author of a number of series of cartoons, among the best known being "Ain't it a Grand and Glorious Feelin'?", "When a Feller Needs a Friend." "Someone is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life", "Mr. and Mrs.", and "Real Folks at Home...
Excursion trains chugged merrily last week, to fair Assisi, where once St. Francis preached the joy of a holy life in poverty. There were some on the excursion trains last week who cared not a bean for the first Franciscan. But all were ardent Fascists who pilgrimaged to see the poet-hero of Fascismo, famed Gabriele D'Annunzio...
...grand the sight! Beautiful indeed." "I am called an obscene man." "Got home and found little wifey out. Found a dress partly done and I finished it on the machine for her and had the bastings out before she came. How she laughed." "Oh how can I express the joy of my soul or speak of the mercy of God." When he was not misspelling the journal of his days, Anthony Cornstock acted as president of the Society for the Prevention of Vice. In this capacity he hunted Satan, finding his prey sometimes in the guise of a bartender brandishing...
...poison with which he defied God and nature, the boll-weevil killer that none would help him spray in the fields. He comes back from the hospital only the shriveled trunk of the towering black pine he was, to die of despair. Other prominent figures are ripe young Joy, April's last duchess; mountainous Big Sue, who slapped jealous Leah dead; amiable Uncle Bill, the plantation saint; malicious Brudge and sensitive Breeze, two of April's older boys; intelligent, defiant Sherry, his strongest boy, whose skull was hard enough to shock blood out the tyrant's nose...