Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Watson: "Let all the earth be glad and rejoice with exceeding great joy...
...small boy with a bat and a batting eye who can find someone to pitch to him, will bat for hours, will cry, "Chuck us another! Watch me knock it outa the lot!" Joy is his. Among adults, the same joy is experienced by the woman at a church social whose seamstress has told her just why Mrs. Jiggetywig left her husband; or by the male dinner guest in Sedalia, Mo., who took his vacation under the auspices of Thos. Cook & Son. These, to squeeze the last drop of bliss from omniscience, will hint: "Ask me another!" Two youths lately...
Only a genuine joy-killer would point out that passing examinations is only the routine duty of students in every college, and not a feat of heroism calling for an extraordinary reward. It would be a useless effort on the part of the joy-killer, at that. There is among most of the student body after every examination period, a feeling that they have studied harder than ever, and that they deserve a high grade, whether or not they receive it. It is better to celebrate, by all means, while this righteous mood endures, than to wait for the cold...
...only chance kept him from the gallows until he attained the armor of prestige and power. A minor exploit of his youth was to "shinny" up the central pillar in a London music hall, wearing the uniform of his Queen (Victoria) and demand three cheers for every daughter of joy in the house. Theirs were, he shouted, the only bosoms on which the tired head of a British soldier could always find repose. By a miracle he was not cashiered?rose to hold the purse strings of the Exchequer...
...human inhabitants of Kern County declared a mouse war. It was with joy indescribable that the newsgatherers learned the name of the mouse catcher the U. S. Biological Survey was sending?one S. E. Piper. They played up this coincidence for all it was worth, longing to call Houseman Piper "pied" but realizing that the slang connotationf would be slanderous...