Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...essence of this speech is that "actions speak louder than words". Where words alone are concerned, the Premier and the nationals which he represents are turning deaf ears. "We await Germany's acts", says the Premier and goes on to exclaim "with what joy shall we remain silent the day Germany understands; but she has given us dally fresh proof of her lack of understanding". Standing in the village of Ailly Wood in northern France it would indeed be strange if the ruins about him did not, like Caesar's wounds, open their poor dumb mouths and eloquently remind...
...Auburn Street bid fair to become permanent. The Advocate has received a three year lease on half of the building and has sublet the second floor to the Dramatic Club. The present plan is to fit out the first floor into a set of offices and--joy of all the editors--a Sanctum. For the last three years the offices of the Advocate have been such as to preclude this chief glory of the ancient magazine. This year, however, old customs will be revived...
...present issue the Youth of Europe are now prosecuting with vigor such a movement toward renovation of their economic states. Apparently the movement has thus far no coherence beyond a kind of common program which is made up more of ardent desires than of definite aims. To restore the joy of labor by repudiating "personal gain as an economic motive" thus eliminating a "mechanical, inhuman work-relationship" is the key-note of the campaign; and together with this, to develop rather than to level the individual. Whether the movement will reach a successful conclusion depends upon whether the movers...
...economic end appears almost impossibly altruistic. There can never be joy in labor while men act as mere cogs in a great producing machine, and without this producing machine the vast population of the earth cannot be supported even in the simplest mode of life. To change the present order into one of production fitted to the "human needs of the producer" as well as the community would mean practically a return to the family producing unit, long since discarded as impossible for sustaining life. Finally, repudiating personal gain as an economic motive is a thing more easily said than...
...peace there, for the devastation and revolution cost Ireland about 40,000,000 pounds sterling." It became known, paradoxically enough, that the whereabouts of Eamon de Valera were unknown. The discovery was made by the anxious Mrs. Eamon de Valera, who went to visit her husband at Mount Joy prison, Dublin. Her husband's presence there was denied. Later she sent a wire to the Adjutant General : " Please inform me of the whereabouts of my husband." She received no reply. The first anniversary of the death of Michael Collins,* First Commander-in-chief of the Free State Army...