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Word: joyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible therefore to generalize about West Point. For instance good health, high mental capacity and moral endurance are universal among the cadets. The general air of enthusiasm so noticeable at games is really Western in attitude-they are religiously keen about the corps and all its activities. Similarly the joy afforded by a soda or a movie seems naive to us but such judgement is done on a purely comparative basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduate on Expedition to West Point Wonders at "Granite Existence" and Loss of Perspective by Cadets | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

While wadding back the joy he well could give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/1/1938 | See Source »

...Shuffle" Wilsin, famed Harvard substitute who accompanied the team to the alleys, was so overcome with joy that he could only say "Wheeee!" for the rest of the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Cops Keep College High In Vanquishing Eli Bowlers | 2/18/1938 | See Source »

Lucile Watson is wondrously wise and imperturbable as the mother with career and past. Violet Heming is duly volatile and saccharine as a sister-in-law who is a pioneer in another field; that of making annual pilgrimages to Reno, Nevada. Nicholas Joy is perfectly suave and self-possessed as the ex-Communist poet. Haila Stoddard, making her debut in the part of the darling daughter, proves herself a highly capable actress and creates great expectations...

Author: By F. H. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 1/26/1938 | See Source »

...McCay was an artist in every sense of the word and his cartoons of "Little Nemo" and "Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend" that appeared in Sunday newspaper supplements were the joy and delight of the youngsters of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 10, 1938 | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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