Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What set Messrs. Morgan and Lilienthal to gurgling with joy was a series of votes by which the members of the House, once more on their good behavior, with substantial and unexpectedly large majorities, in short order allowed what its committee had forbidden, waived what had been required, permitted what had been denied, granted what had been refused. The House then signed & sealed its grant of power by a vote...
...nearly all night in the Park of Culture & Rest, the State supplying masks and soft drinks, with all alcoholic tipples barred. Since the habit of censorship has become ingrained under Stalin, arriving revelers were inspected at the gates by censors who said that their purpose was "to keep out joy killers." Barred was a Russian who arrived in a tight black suit painted to make him look like a skeleton...
...Penal Code was in part authorized. None of it having been published, Minister without Portfolio Hans Frank explained: "German lawyers will be filled with joy to hear that the former principle of 'no punishment without law' has been replaced by the principle 'no crime without punishment.' This should obligate German men of the law to a new gratitude to Der Führer. For the first time the concept of 'love of Der Führer' has become a legal concept." ¶ Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick received final authority to settle all German church disputes...
Practically unnoticed by the U. S., a wave of clear delirious joy last week swept the entire southern half of the Western Hemisphere. The great Latin American States of Argentina, Brazil and Chile declared national holidays. In half a dozen capitals the voice of the crowd rang out in the winter air, "Firmose la paz," "The peace is signed." The bloody, three-year Gran Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay was over...
...hyposensitive may feel no normal symptoms of a disease until accidental conditions build up his sensitivity. Sensitizers: "worry, fear, anger, sorrow, fatigue, diversion of attention, joy, focal infections, and endocrine influences (especially the menopause), trauma, meteorological changes." As an example Dr. Libman cites the case of a Viennese doctor who, when a soprano took a B note a quarter of a tone too high, suffered a severe attack of pain in a tooth that had never before been painful. On the following day that doctor's dentist found the tooth decayed...