Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while I was flat on my back, after that operation, that I became 'John Martin.' . . . There has been a deep and strong undercurrent in my life, an urge that kept pushing me on. It was a great love of children, a desire to give them something of the joy and understanding my mother had given me. . . . I began to write verses for children. . . . I signed these verses 'John Martin' because of the bird friends of my boyhood...
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When Governor Roosevelt sat down at his radio at 9:30 p. m. that evening, he knew he was as good as nominated. Manager Farley had reported that the California and Texas delegations had swung over, in return for the Vice Presidential nomination for Speaker Garner. Joy pervaded the Executive Mansion as the convention roll call started and William Gibbs McAdoo announced the switch that clinched the nomination...
...Chargedwith uttering exclamations of joy when he heard of the assassination of President Paul Doumer, one Comrade Hautefeuille, a Communist street vendor, was sentenced in Paris last week to one year's imprisonment...
...competent portrayer of Dutch domestic scenes (The Rebel Generation, The House of Joy), Authoress van Ammers-Küller in her latest novel gives an account of life in her native Delft early in the 20th Century. Beginning her tale with something of the ordered, crystalline detail of Dutch interior paintings, she ends it in cloudy emotional confusion and disillusionment...