Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Biggar from Dalbeattie, Scotland, who has been judging the Exposition's champion steers for nine years. So were some 45,000 spectators daily who looked at some 13,500 animals on the hoof, largest assembly on record. A new corn king was crowned-C. Worth Holmes of Joy, Ill. A new wheat king was crowned -Frank Isackson of Elfros, Saskatchewan. A new healthiest boy and two healthiest girls (tied for first place) were named-curly-mopped Glen L. Sherwood, 19, 6 ft. tall, 177 lb., who has shoulders as broad as any steer's, played...
...Leonor Fresnel Loree, grizzled old president of Delaware & Hudson, last week addressing Manhattan's Bond Club took occasion to tell his youngers how wrong are nearly all popular beliefs. Particular joy did he take in casting his spear at the Senate doctrine that business executives are overpaid. Declaring that good executives are too scarce, he came out for "an extension of the powers of management and its freedom from unwarranted interference by its associates [Capital & Labor] and by the politician. Its authority is now too limited and its compensation too inadequate...
Philip Bourneuf, again showing his superiority over the rest of the group, gives a singularly sensitive performance of the affectionate Segard, but despite this, one fails to feel the sadness that should be his, but rather the joy and expectation of Therese and Bastien. To Miss Fitzpatrick and Francis Cleveland belong the more intriguing roles; to Bourneuf, the kudos for better execution...
...arms behind her back. She was two and her sixth cousin Franklin was four when they first met. Franklin rode her on his back. Says she: "I was a solemn child without beauty and painfully shy and I seemed like a little old woman entirely lacking in the spontaneous joy and mirth of youth...
...stood up at the blackboard-announced to the class that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points-and then tried to draw one. All I can say is that I, too, have never been able to draw a straight line. I am sure you shared my joy when Einstein proved that there ain't no such thing as a straight line...