Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such changes of management did not brake the Garden's steady downward plummet in prestige and profits. Boxing, once the corporation's most flourishing sport, attracted 206,000 spectators in 1932-33. 83,000 in 1933-34. The unpopularity of gaudy Matchmaker James Joy Johnston, who developed the practice of putting his brother's fighters on his increasingly unsuccessful cards, finally alienated the best of the country's fight managers and boxers who once considered a Garden engagement a crowning achievement. The final blow fell when the Ross-Petrolle lightweight championship tight was held last winter...
...Temple, to find out how many students read the petitions they sign, someone circulated a petition for an extra holiday, ending: "We are resolved to spend the day in merrymaking and leisure, at which time each one will decapitate himself with extreme joy." Five hundred students dumbly signed...
...Lehman Co. of America (more specifically of Cannelton, Ind.) has been making nursery furniture since 1876. The business is now run by four third generation toymaking Lehman brothers of which the oldest and wisest is William Charles. At the fair last week, the Brothers Lehman's pride & joy, was a 275-lb. high chair, built for display, from which no baby could escape. Even an adult locked in behind the tray cannot overtip...
...justified and that the value of a human life is far greater than that of any principle over which a war could be waged. The men who have espoused this view, however, have been young men with future years of possible happiness ahead, youths drunk with the joy of living. The old men, on the other hand, who have lived the greater portion of their lives have sat quietly by and looked on, amused perhaps. For them living for the sake of living has lost its value and only because of loyalties to some ideals do they push on towards...
...hoary squabble between Rivera and Rockefeller Center, in which both societies were invited to exhibit. Claiming that Rockefeller authorities were certain to exercise censorship, John Sloan's Independents refused, went instead to the Grand Central Palace. Claiming exactly the opposite, the Salons went to the Center. Joy to the public of a no-jury show is that anybody can exhibit, for a small membership fee. Joy to the critics is that the shows are always bad, almost always funny. As usual both shows had canvases by "Sunday"' painters who were harness makers, subway conductors, etc. etc. Prohibition, once...