Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peggy has a new joy now. Says she: "It's more fun writing than being a woman...
...Experiment. George Marshall had just donned the mufti of retirement when the call came from Washington for one more great task. One day last November he was at his Leesburg (Va.) farm, where he takes a countryman's joy in pruning trees, growing sweet corn and keeping compost pits. President Truman, troubled and hard-pressed by the explosive resignation of Ambassador Pat Hurley, was on the wire. Would the General postpone his well-earned rest to do an emergency job in China? With a sigh, the General looked at his half-unpacked bags. Ten days later...
...seeker after truth last week asked: "If life holds no joy, why live?" Answered Teppe: "Why indeed...
...command performance honoring Admiral d'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner for Indo-China, who with a single word had brought joy to Cambodia. Resplendent in purple wrap-around sam-pots, beribboned white tunics and black silk stockings, the bun-haired mandarins of Cambodia's court had smiled when they heard d'Argenlieu address their monarch as "Sire." The courtiers knew this meant that France no longer considered Sianouk as a native chieftain but a real king, and Cambodia not as a protectorate but as an almost-autonomous state within the framework of a projected French union. In return...
Good or bad, an orchestra was finally got together. By combing through Havana's military bands, Stokowski found 55 men who had been known to blow horns. To sing Schiller's Ode to Joy, which concludes the symphony, he hired a Cuban chorus of 150 who knew no German. Then 21 string players and a tenor who knew German were flown from New York by chartered plane. And Stokowski triumphantly assured Cubans that the sublime music of Beethoven would be conducted by the sublime Stokowski-three days late...