Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sides, approached the Blue headquarters of Air Marshal Sir Edward Leonard Ellington. It had been a poor week for fighting planes. A patrol of six fighters defending the Blue base saw a single red bomber approaching. Not recognizing the Prince's plane they dove at it with whoops of joy, raked it with imaginary machine guns, "sat on its tail" in approved fashion, forced it ignominiously to earth. Wales, grinning good-naturedly, admitted his theoretical death...
These figures give verity to the Tom Huston slogans: "They Make Hunger a Joy," "Millions Gone Nutty over Tom's Toasted Peanuts...
Manslaughter (Paramount). Thomas Meighan and Leatrice Joy were in a silent picture made from this story. It was a good silent picture by the standards of its time, but its revival as a talkie seems unnecessary. Oldfashioned, stagey, sentimental, it deals heavily with one or two remote social problems and, more immediately, with a young woman who goes to jail for having caused the death of a policeman who was chasing her automobile on his motorcycle. Her conviction is obtained, with patent suffering, by a prosecutor who has fallen in love with her. The absurdities involved in these events...
...William Mellon, Owen D. Young, Martin John Insull, Julius Rosenwald. The farflung scope of the new endowment was reflected in such names as H. Gordon Selfridge of London, James Drummond Dole of Honolulu, Hubert Fleishhacker of California. Samuel H. Halle and Oris Paxton Van Sweringen of Cleveland, Richard Pickering Joy of Detroit...
...Hour Week. The present 50-hour week formerly was 100 hours. Each year the working week is reduced by one half-hour. Editor Joy Elmer Morgan of the Journal of the National Education Association predicted that by 1960 there would be but five four-hour workdays, some day a one-hour working week...