Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preach a holy crusade, Nominee Landon offered no burning sentiments, spoke in no burning voice. Last week in accepting the Republican Vice Presidential nomination Publisher Knox of the Chicago Daily News cut loose with a red-hot attack on the New Deal which made GOPartisans jump with joy...
...Artist Saint successfully produced his first batch of colored glass. Gathering a hatful of samples, he hastened abroad to make a comparison with the glass in Chartres Cathedral. Perched on a teetering, 50-ft. ladder, Lawrence Saint held his own glass directly against the great Western windows, shouted for joy when he realized he had duplicated the original colors in three cases out of four...
Back for another run last week was that familiar U. S. drama concerning joy in the market place and despair on the farm. While drought withered crops and pastures in a score of states, the nation's commodity markets staged the most exciting show since the great drought of 1934. A large part of the entire U. S. spring wheat crop was but worthless stubble. Winter wheat on the other hand had already been mostly harvested. Early in June the price of wheat was less than 85? per bu. Last week it sold as high as $1.10. In corn...
...scientific progress, Brave New World, Author Huxley buttressed his argument without deepening it when he painted a picture of a world in which man's conquest of nature was complete, in which the evils of contemporary society were absent but with them all poetry, all drama, all joy in life...
...Scheherezade, an Arabian Nights fantasy in which a Sultana and all her co-wives betray their Sultan on the stage with Negro slaves, afterward are butchered by the Sultan's soldiers. Although cultivated Mayfair and Manhattan consider Scheherezade merely esthetic, the Sheik & Sons watched it with savage joy, their nostrils quivering and eyes bugging as the Negro slaves and fair wives heaved. "The Sheik never mentions his own wives to unbelievers," confided a member of His Highness' suite. "To them he speaks of the prowess of his sons...