Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joy Ride...
...William Richard Morris, ist Baron of Nuffield, who last year brought tears of joy to the eyes of Oxonians with a gift of $10,000,000 for a medical centre and $500,000 for the Bodleian Library, had previously given $700,000 for an infirmary. Last week he tossed Oxford University another $6,500,000. He gave $1,000,000 for more medical research, $500,000 to buy a site for a new school of physical chemistry, $5,000,000 for a new college for social studies. Thereupon, the onetime bicycle mechanic, now the Henry Ford of Great Britain...
Hearing the news, Singer Edith Dahl wept for joy in Cannes, tried to decide which of two Hollywood contracts she should accept. At the last instant she turned down an offer of British Long-Distance Flyer James Mollison, who was sued for divorce last week by his equidistant flying wife Amy Johnson Mollison, to fly her to Salamanca, hurried to Paris to await her husband before returning with him to Hollywood...
...Legionnaires were at first lodged could claim to be even Fourth Class led to heroic eruptions of wrath. Typical ex-dough-boys and their good wives complained that 20 years after 1917 they were being asked to sleep in hotels some of whose other occupants were obviously daughters of joy. The Government blamed everything on a Paris travel agency which was said to have been paid enough to secure comfortable rooms. As Legionnaires were moved to better hotels last week their tempers improved...
...vast delight of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Similarly, a new firm named Lane-Wells Co. (which owns a unique process of "blowing in" oil wells with something called a "gun-perforator") successfully sold 40,000 shares at $15 each in its first public financing to the joy of Hartley Rogers & Co. But Continental Can is unusually strong and Lane-Wells enjoys unusual earnings. Other companies, less well fattened, have an understandable reluctance to enter the market at present. Last week, according to Investment Dealers' Digest, no less than 135 new capital issues were being held up by the underwriters...