Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent airing of the executive department's dirty linen takes a prominent part in this report. Large sums spent on luncheons, executive travel, and office supplies have been explained away by the Governor's secretary as justifiable, since used in spreading "hope and joy among the people." The people has indicated that it will no longer stand for such mummery. The lieutenant-governor's office-assistance appropriation was at zero for one hundred and fifty years, but in 1930 possibilities of treasure accruing to this post were discovered, and for 1936 $7100 is requested in the budget. It is suggested...
...wenches' joy did not exceed that of the Rhineland menfolk. In Cologne the reaction of a dignified German burgher on his way by street car to a funeral in crape arm band and black stovepipe hat was significant. On hearing the glorious rumor, he swung off the street car and bustled toward Cathedral Square, where the first troops were expected to arrive, puffing: "The first soldier I get my hands on is going to get as cockeyed-drunk at my expense as I did when I was a soldier in 1914-and I'm going to get cockeyed...
...Washington Star appeared the following: "Holmes, Oliver Wendell - In sad remembrance of the late Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, who passed to his reward one year ago today, March 6, 1935. Death is the gate to endless joy, but we dread to enter there. By his old messenger, Arthur A. Thomas...
...Wall Street parlance a "free rider" is a person who buys a new issue not for investment but for the speculative possibility of immediately selling it in the open market at a profit. For free riders the Treasury's long-term bonds turned out to be a joy ride, since they promptly rose more" than 1½% above the offering price...
...more consistently abstract. Her face is like a mask when she dances. For Frontiers her principal gesture is to raise one leg, rest it on a fence (see cut p. 53). Her intention is to give the effect of space, of peaceful contemplation. Jumps into the air mean joy, a collapse to the floor implies grief or destruction. In Horizons, her latest creation, her girls have a passage where they place their hands behind their necks, rotate their heads from side to side. They are supposed to be hesitating, wondering whether they should go to the right or the left...