Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Turner Joy...
Last week the President's announcement brought "utmost joy" at the Vatican. General Clark, now chief of Army Field Forces, was commander of the army that liberated Rome in 1944. An Episcopalian and a 33rd degree Mason, he became a firm friend of Pope Pius XII. Clark will not be a mere Minister, as was his predecessor, Rufus King. His title will be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,* and his appointment will probably be followed by the naming of a Papal Nuncio...
...cleaver," and the girls hurried upstairs, forthwith, to steal some of Mrs. Covner's dresses for the trip. They made a heady discovery-the doctor, for reasons best known to himself, had hidden $18,000 in small bills in a box in the bedroom closet. Gasping with conspiratorial joy, the girls bundled clothes and money into a suitcase, swiped some lipstick, hustled out of the house and took a bus to the big city...
...supported to the tune of $300,000 a year, and the public's favorite painting at both museums is a religious figure. One painting is as still as death; the other crackles with fiery life. Some 500,000 St. Louisans visit their museum annually, and their particular pride & joy is Francisco de Zurbaran's Monk with a Skull, which cost only $3,000 in 1941. The pink-stuccoed De Young Museum, in beautiful Golden Gate Park, draws a million people a year; their favorite, judging by reproduction sales, is El Greco's stormy St. John the Baptist...
...Author Elizabeth Bowen, good friend and brilliant colleague of Graham Greene's. Marjorie Bowen's real name: Margaret Gabrielle Long. * The volume is now a rare collector's item, and Graham Greene wishes it were even rarer. Sample: . . . Your eyes can bring me no such lovely joy As sudden sparks of beauty in a verse . . . And yet, your hair dusks with its strands the page, Until I'd leave the book to kiss your hair. Yet even now I'm sure that two years hence I'd curse the bitter bargain of a fool...