Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hiccupped and belched, shouted, muttered, got his sentences mixed up. Not much of his speech was intelligible, but some of it seemed to indicate that his celebration was the result of a session with Hitler. "I saw the Führer yesterday," he shouted thickly. "I had the incredible joy of being with him for the whole day. I can only tell you-" Here Ley's voice broke, but he recovered, went on: "We do not complain, oh Fate! Take whom you will as a sacrifice! . . . But spare us one! Preserve for us the health and strength...
Move It Over was promptly bought for $1,000 advance royalties by Santly-Joy, Tin Pan Alley song publishers. Broadcasters, suspicious of what sort of "load" the song was delivering, were responsible for a change in the lyrics from "There's another big load" to "There's another dirt load." Within two months of this Nice-Nellyism, the song's sale rose to 50,000 copies. Ethel Merman's Victor recording sold 80,000 discs and kept on going. The U.S. Army morale division ordered 25,000 copies. By last week, members of the U.S. Army...
...Copyrighted 1942 by Santly-Joy...
Those last eight days contained a life time's quota of joy and despair. The despair came in the wilds of Utah, where he was stranded in sub-freezing weather clad only in a light suit, As he described it. "After walking for some time I became tired and, taking my pack off my back, I seated myself on it and rested, but. . . I quickly realized that I was starting to freeze to death and that if didn't start walking I would never see the dawn of another...
...submitted to the Steinach operation. He went off to Majorca with a swami to translate the Upanishads-a rest somewhat addled when a visiting poetess, mad with joy over praise from Yeats, so conducted herself as to fall on a valuable dog for whose injuries the Peruvian Consul presented a bill...