Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the title-heading of "Compleat Conchophilist" [TIME, Sept. 16], I am happy to find that others enjoy and appreciate as much as I the joy, interest and advantages of "snail-watching," but regret the sense of levity with which you handled the subject...
...Joy came to Brooklyn the following afternoon. Playing like champions for once, the inspired Bums manhandled the Boston Braves. For a few happy hours, they were ahead. But that night the Cards' Harry ("The Cat") Brecheen beat the Cubs for the second time in a week. It was all tied up again, with a single game apiece to play...
...Pain & Joy. In Brooklyn, it was an agonizing week. On the steps of Borough Hall, the Rev. Benney S. C. Benson knelt and intoned: "Oh Lord, their chances don't look so good right now, but everyone is praying for the Bums to win. We ask you not to give . . . St. Louis any better break than you give us. . . ." That afternoon Leo ("The Lip") Durocher used eight Dodger pitchers-a league record-in an unsuccessful attempt to beat the Phillies. Next day, star Outfielder Pete Reiser broke a leg sliding into base, while 32,000 Flatbush faithfuls groaned...
...Rojo Gómez announced that a five-year-old statute sharply curbing noises after 11 p.m. would be strictly enforced. After that hour cars must not sound Klaxons, streetcars must not use air whistles, jukeboxes must be played only behind closed doors, people must not shout either in joy or in anger, and anyone wishing to give a gallo (serenade) might do so only with police permission...
...Joy in the Morning has enough to satisfy the hard core of Wodehouse readers (the average, annual P. G. W. novel sells 10,000 copies in the U.S.). But it has only a trace of real mirth for those who believe that in spasmodic moments of his heyday, Wodehouse was one of Britain's most talented comic writers...