Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story runs in this wise. A year ago the Archbishop of Lima, Peru, made proclamation: "We announce a great event which will be a source of much joy to all our people. The Republic of Peru, Catholic by conviction, by tradition, and by the constitution, will be officially consecrated to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus next month, and the image of this most sacred heart will be enthroned in the principal plaza of the capital...
...fluid as life itself. The problem will be how to provide opportunities for ever-increasing richness of experience. The school will be a place where boys and girls will reconstruct their experience in a boys' and girls' world. In this way they will be able to experience the sheer joy of living...
...must not be supposed that there was no celebration however, for the class of 1924 confined its efforts to individual expressions of joy, as its exhausted members trooped from the final Examination yesterday, in New Lecture Hall, to be revived at the street by a unidentified dispenser of good cheer...
While admittedly a relic from a more spirited age much can be said for a custom of duelling among the litterati. The pen is perhaps mightier than the sword, but putting an opponent to his literary death in monthly instalments contrasts unfavorably with the joy of making one quick lunge which will silence him forever. And the latter is by far the more humane method, since it preserves the blasted litterateurs from a lingering death by starvation or an equally unfortunate turn to the plebian occupation of automobile salesman...
...recreate that joy on earth...