Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have long relished your movie reviews. . . . The brilliant article on Treasure of Sierra Madre [TIME, Feb. 2] is a joy...
Back in the days of "the Long Armistice," one of the favorite parlor tricks of the intelligentsia was debunking the unsullied stalwarts of the past. Abraham Lincoln became, in these circles, a shrewd country lawyer, Barbara Fritchie an irascible old fishwife, and it was discovered to the intense joy of the iconoclasts that George Washington not only told lies but had unmistakable earmarks of a stuffy, conservative militarist...
...HENNEY HAL JOY...
...Wernette's place, the regents appointed amiable University Comptroller Tom L. Pope joy. Most New Mexicans, they figured, would find Tom Popejoy more to their liking: he was a member of Rotary and one of the directors of the Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce. Old grads also remembered the day when, as a star halfback on the university football team, he kicked the winning goal against the University of Arizona...
...Panic" is a tale of an unlucky man, who was turned from his one real joy-his love for his wife-when she decided that she decided that she preferred the company of her husband's only friend. This sort of thing is enough to turn any man into at least a mild persimist; here it has made the gentleman in question give up his home and law practice and turn to recording with his camera all the grisly things he can find. At this point, the movie opens, with the arrival of a young woman just out of prison...