Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Capper, potent Senator from Kansas: "Besides my duties as a law maker, I bring joy into many a prairie home with my Cap per's Weekly, famed 16-page clean tabloid hodgepodge. My paper entertains with pictures of Mrs. Leo nard Kip Rhinelander, Iowa's champion grandma, mother and child hippopotami - all sandwiched in between "sillygisms" and other little quips. Fortnight ago, one of my editors conceived this one: 'A great thunderclap shook the earth during a shower. "Wow," exclaimed a colored citizen standing under an awning. "Hell done laid a aig."' But my little...
...unaccountable wife drives into a ditch and dies, leaving him more than ever dependent on Delphine, a mistress of effulgent dark beauty whose simple devotion he is continually driven to suspect by his millionaire's obsession with "the underlying motive." A weak heart does not add to his joy in their relation, and in her the War had developed a vein of melancholia. Yet they have happy moments together. She is a refuge from the thoughts with which he paces the Embankment; from the ignominy of moments when he, a Minister, has nothing to do; from the whole importunate...
...swarm from the byways and hedges to see two and twenty players fight over a little leather ball. They will expect great things. A single mistake may decide the game. One error may mean defeat. But what of it, our friend across the water asks. There is yet some joy in life. What remains of life does not at once look bleak and dreary to an English 'varsity man if he happens to drop a ball. Nor does he feel eternally disgraced if, by mischance, he falls during a sprint or crumples up in a shell...
...serious thinkers' pride and joy...
...Alimony Only (Leatrice Joy). Two couples in a criss-cross complication prove that true love under the direction of the heroine will triumph over mercenary ambitions of less exalted members of the cast; prove also how dull such business...