Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, the C. I. 0. (which embraces fewer unions in occupations assisted by WPA) rushed to the support of A. F. of L. with a blast warning Congress to amend the new law. The Workers Alliance, whose membership is largely dependent on WPA, jumped for joy on the sidelines, being for once the prospective beneficiaries, though not the authors, of a revolt in WPA. Violence grew. In Minneapolis a policeman was killed in a row between pickets and nonstriking WPAsters. As skilled unionists walked out, WPA projects came to a halt and unskilled workers were idle willy-nilly...
Pacing up & down in Mrs. Jack's "workshop" in Greenwich Village, Monk sings, makes strange gurglings, stares out of the window, suddenly emits an ecstatic "goatlike cry of joy." Whereupon they join in wild cavorting, break off to eat the lunch which she comes each day to prepare. At times Monk speaks as follows: "Can I devour you? Can I feed my life on yours, get all your life and richness into me, walk about with you inside me, breathe you into my lungs like harvest, absorb you, eat you, melt you, have you in my brain, my heart...
...more, however, because they make up from time to time and declare "Was there ever love like ours?" it is a long time before the final parting. Near the end Monk makes his bitterest accusation: "I've lost my squeal" -meaning his "wild goat-cry of pain and joy and ecstasy...
...although the mood of graduation is simple and far from sombre, the several hundred Laertes who sit in the Quadrangle to-day cannot fail to carry away something of deeper tone than the note of momentary joy. Will they help achieve what the Class Orator saw as the need of civilization: intellectual integration? Will they contribute to the enthronement of those human values which can be the only means of preserving that balance between the individual and society which is freedom and the only way to insuring democracy? It may be, if in addition to the belief in the goodness...
...Tasket and Stop Beatin' 'Round the Mulberry Bush were raging furiously among jazz musicians, Saxie Dowell fixed up the Southern song with some new verses, some boop-boops, a two-bar tune, repeated (with little variation) eight times. The result was published last April by Santly-Joy-Select, Inc., which got out The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round and admits to liking "crazy things." Under its title Three Little Fishies, Saxie Dowell's song last week had set something of a current record by leading the field in sheet music sales for a month...