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Word: joyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Iselin A Joy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEES LITTLE TO BLAME IN CERCLE PRODUCTION | 3/13/1924 | See Source »

...Iselin's Valere was a joy; the boyish lover, ready to marry anyone to prove that he will not be flouted, and yet man enough to risk all that he has to save Organ...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEES LITTLE TO BLAME IN CERCLE PRODUCTION | 3/13/1924 | See Source »

...warmth of affection practised by the knights and poets of Elizabeth's reign demanded protestation, an art in which the modern world is deficient. It is an art, however vain, which might restore some fragment of joy and courtesy to Vanity Fair, the only permanent institution on earth. In "A Handful of Pleasant Delights", we see the art practised with simplicity and fervor of soul, too honest and optimistically tussling with versification for the polished and invidious grace of the sonneteers Or at least it is so in the following superb example, which merits instant acceptance as the literal truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ELIZABETHAN MISCEL LANY REPRINTED | 3/7/1924 | See Source »

Three days after the "Pirmasens affair" the green-white-red flag of the Separatists was hauled down by order of the Allies amid the indescribable joy and relief of the people, and the government of the area was placed in the hands of a Palatinate Kreistag Commitee. Great Britain, who, through ex-Foreign Minister Lord Curzon, was the first Nation to protest energetically against the Separatist activities, and who caused an Interallied Special Com-mission to be formed to study the Separatist question, was hailed by the Palatinate populace as their saviour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Separatists Go | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

Beethoven, absolutely deaf, once said: "He who can enter into the spirit of my music will be beyond the reach of the world's misery." His "Ninth" sublimates his own struggle; it closes with a version of Schiller's Hymn to Joy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beethoven | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

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