Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desk where he had worked for half a century. Instructions were carried out to the letter: 350 mourners were handed his obituary, fresh off the clanking press. The new Linotype machine, purchased to celebrate the Mercury's 100th anniversary three months hence, was Editor Bodine's great joy. He had started to use it to write his memoirs...
...both his Washington newspapers (the other is the evening Times). She said she wanted time to think it over, and meanwhile in April arranged to lease the Herald. Last fortnight she heard that Mr. Meyer had increased his bid. Now thoroughly alarmed at the prospect of losing her pride & joy, she called San Simeon again. "Well, Cissy," said Mr. Hearst, "you tell me what you want to do and I'll have my folks...
...softer ironies at which perceptive Nazis squirm became visible last week in Bavaria. Opened by Realmleader Hitler with a 90-minute tirade against post-war esthetics (TIME, July 26), the new, massive House of German Art in Munich drew daily throngs of youths and maidens looking for Strength Through Joy in a collection of conventional paintings by young Nazi discoveries. But for every visitor who paid 50 pfennigs to see what the Führer liked in the way of art, three visitors went down the street a little to see for nothing what the Führer despises. This...
...Premier Leon Blum (TIME, June 29, 1936 et ante), Italian workers had received the 40-hr, week under Fascist Premier Benito Mussolini. Joseph Stalin has given Soviet toilers a system of Five-Year-Planned vacations and holiday trips. German workers are provided by Adolf Hitler with lavish "Strength Through Joy" cruises on specially constructed Nazi liners built for the exclusive fun of the proletariat. Last week in Rome some of the strides which European workmen are making toward an easier and more varied life-irrespective of what kind of regime they toil under- brought into genial conference the chief exponents...
...ward for "amorous diseases" occupied by "Oldtimers." Germanic Private Bemelmans decided it was time to introduce some discipline in the U. S. Army. But when he tried to turn out the lights per regulations, his patients threw things at him. Threatened with his revolver, "they howled with joy. threw all the rest of the things." Two shots over their heads brought an amused reprimand from the Colonel, who suggested: "The basic function of a Hospital, Private Bemelmans, is to cure men, not to shoot them...