Word: joyfullness
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Last week, a fateful century later, Britain opened another exhibition. Britain's greatness had become constricted; her riches were dwindling; her military and commercial power, like the steam that drove her once-commanding machines, had been fearsomely diminished. Her sense of high adventure was no more. Yet in the...
Easter is the one day of the year when everyone who calls himself a Christian goes to church, if he ever goes at all. Congregations flock churchward in their Easter best, and the churches themselves are brave with flowers; the preachers for once preach joyful sermons, the singing soars with...
Colbert was downright joyful. He gave a party for 450 newsmen and showed them his new 1951 models-Chryslers, Dodges, Plymouths, De Sotos; sedans, convertibles, hardtops and station wagons.
His faith is summed up in a speech from The Lady-a. joyful Te Deum asserted against his century's sad Nunc Dimittis:
Near midnight President Otilio Ulate arrived to join the crowd packed into the steaming church. Archbishop Sanabria celebrated Mass; brilliantly illuminated in her golden monstrance above the altar,, the black Virgin smiled down once more on her flock. In the first joyful hours, only the archbishop and the police seemed...