Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even remember, they broke through the police lines to clasp my hand and tell me of their affection. It is them that I love and to them that I shall someday return. ... I cannot look into the future, and enough unto the day is the joy or the sorrow thereof...
...Arbre (The Tree of Life), dealing with the soul's emergence from the mundane, and has topped this dramatic Comedie Humaine with his Hy nines and Cinque Grandes Odes, poems in which the muse of religious devotion seems at times to be raving in a delirium of joy...
After two passes that shot like lances through the gathering dusk, it was the good right foot of Wadsworth, substitute back, which offset the wonder pass from Chauncey to Saltonstall that sent Harvard momentarily into the lead and the Crimson stands into a riot of joy. Previously, it had been a mighty punt by Noble that put the Bulldog on the way to its first score, and in the closing minutes Captain Bunnell tore away the last shred of Crimson hopes with his great 40-yard field goal...
...common pastime of our intellectual youth. The combination of malicious mischief and larceny is irresistible to the academic mind. The Princetonian stand excused, however. The posts were supposed to be protected by a pitiful little band of policemen. That was a challenge not to be refused. The joy of assaulting of fibers of the law was added to the usual diversion...
NUMBER FOUR JOY STREET-Appleton ($2.50). Only experts are allowed to work on Joy Street- such writers as Walter de la Mare, Lord Dunsany, Rose Fyleman, Hilaire Belloc, Compton Mackenzie, Laurence Housman, Hugh Chesterman. Mr. de la Mare's contribution concerns John Cobbler, a Wiltshire boy who was turned into a tench. Mr. Belloc, in verse, confesses himself a votary...