Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...particular, there was joy in OWMR's Advisory Board, which had wanted General Clay sacked, and in the War Production Board, whose boss, J. A. ("Cap") Krug, had been smarting under the general's stiff and stern policies...
...Lieut. General Sir Montagu George North Stopford led his XXXIII Corps last week, his flock of ducks went also. Every mess tent had its complement of parrots and parakeets. But even the Fourteenth's men thought last week that a sergeant had reached the ultimate. His new pride & joy was a 10-ft. python, maintained in sheer defiance of Hilaire Bellocs advice on pets: "A python, I should not advise; it needs a doctor for its eyes, and has the measles yearly...
...detailed the reasons for the statement: "It is a great privilege to be sent in the name of Christ to minister to men of all faiths-and of none." But when an Episcopal chaplain turns to the men who belong to his own church, "he finds less cause for joy. . . . The pathetic weakness of much of our religious education is now most glaringly apparent. . . . We have turned out too many people who are more like the Pharisee than the Publican-members of the Episcopal Church who look around and say, 'Thank God I am not as other...
Last week, on an officially trumpeted "Helen Traubel Day," both St. Louis and its favorite daughter did themselves proud. The 41-year-old prima donna was a joy to photographers. She twittered with the birds in the municipal zoo, was twittered over by excitable St. Louis socialites who did not know her at all in the old days. In Kiel auditorium, she sang 24 songs (only one from Wagner). On Sunday she took her oldtime seat in the loft of the jampacked Pilgrim Congregational Church. Miss Traubel refused to walk down the aisle with the choir, but in excellent voice...
...grubby, sad-faced gamin wearing an old sweater, patched pants and dirty sneakers, and carrying a slingshot, was packing them in last week in Montreal. He is known to all of French-speaking Canada as "Fridolin," whose annual revues, begun in 1938, have become the joy of French-speaking Montreal and Quebec. His real name-Gratien Gélinas-has faded into the background, as has the fact that he was once the most popular artist on the Canadian, radio. This season's Fridolinons, now running in Montreal, looks like the most successful ever...