Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have no interest in trust-busting for the sheer joy of it," remarked Robert Jackson, Assistant U. S. Attorney General in charge of trustbusting, in a published interview last week. One thing was sure: Lawyer Jackson last week had something less than sheer joy in his latest attempt at trustbusting. For nine months early this year Lawyer Jackson's department investigated the operations of the four big auto-financing companies owned by or connected with automobile manufacturers. Last September it began presenting its evidence to a special Federal grand jury in Milwaukee. Last week, just when it seemed certain...
...Profound Joy." Premier Chautemps and Foreign Minister Delbos wore the most satisfied smiles imaginable as they arrived in Paris, greeted at the station by cheering Socialist and Radical Socialist adherents. "On every subject we have been able to meet the English!" was beaming Premier Chautemps' way of summing up. "It is with profound joy that I am able to say that on all topics we found ourselves in complete agreement...
Boxers, Lamar will say, are the kind of athletes who need competition, and not the kind that comes from week after week of sparring with the same partners. There must be a little more incentive to win. Boxing for the joy of boxing may exist, but the majority of fist-flingers want to see more than a bruised sparring partner (whom they've fought a dozen times before) after they get through a few three-minute sessions...
...haphazard Once in a Blue Moon; Billy House, fleshy Mr. Bones of old-time minstrelsy; addlepated Comedienne Alice Brady; Mischa Auer, well cast as a lean and bony swami. Foster Fathers Savo, Lahr, House and Auer combine their comic efforts in cementing the romance of their theatre-born ward (Joy Hodges) and Scion John King. Since this scheme merely involves hoodwinking Alice Brady it turns out to be not too difficult. Comics Auer and Savo dabble in the occult. House impersonates an English noblewoman, in his spare moments trains Fall Guy Lahr for a wrestling bout. Actress Brady is properly...
...good intentions, how cheaply sensational the general interest had been. In the end, still trying vaguely to do right, he gets mixed up in a complicated mess, shoots a cop, is fatally wounded. Unless the title is completely ironical, this finale must be the act of redemption which causes joy in Heaven "over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance...