Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then came the event which provoked a bedlam of joy. It was a message of greeting from President Roosevelt...
...chisel as essentials on any blind date. Venturing further, the day may come when a mass descent upon Radcliffe and Wellesley (with weapons) will remove this orthodontical veneer that has covered the female searcher after knowledge since time immemorial, and, oh happy day, render the feminine campus a joy forever. Arma virumque cano...
...Happiness lies not in the possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement; in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits." (Has the "thrill of creative effort" been too much for the farmer? If not, why does A.A.A. encourage with financial reward--the gaining of which, according to the President, never brings "happiness"--the reduction of crops? Or isn't it an "achievement" to produce food...
...puts up signs inviting other jobless to join their community-a carpenter, a stone mason, a barber, a violinist, a tailor, an undertaker, an escaped convict. They build shacks, plough the fields using manpower, a motorcycle, decrepit automobiles. When they first behold a seedling they exhibit naïve joy and the carpenter leads them in prayer. But before their crops are ready for harvest their larder is depleted. The convict saves the community by arranging for one of them to get a $500 reward for his apprehension. Then comes Drought. Gloomily John is about to go off with...
...little Tommy Bridges, your pride and joy, beat the Great Dizzy Dean today, 3-1, and put the Detroit Tigers out in front of the St. Louis Cardinals, three games to two, in the 1934 World Series...