Word: joyfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place untouched," he said. He also began to lecture his victims, telling them: "Your house is too easy. You should have lights over your doorway or you should keep a dog." His victims were so grateful that they seldom bore a grudge against him. "I was always filled with joy," he said, "and my heart overflowed with thanks...
Though free in Tokyo again after 18 years in prison, Matsukichi last week was no longer overflowing with joy. Said he: "When I walk down the streets of Tokyo and see the ashes and rubble of what once were fine houses, I think of how I used to enter them at night, and I feel sorry for the people who used to live there and whom I used...
...east to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is he that is born King of the Jews?" . . . And, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh...
...stilted-looking as an amateur theatrical, but its wholly unsentimental sweetness more than compensated for that. The sweetness in Luini's pictures could not be mixed on a palette or applied with a brush; it was an inner achievement of the artist himself, a personal innocence and joy, which gave greatness to paintings like the Nativity...
...loudspeakers in Soviet homes, parks, and on street corners the deep, resonant voice of Radio Moscow's ace announcer, Yuri Levitan, boomed bad & good news. Soviet citizens grew taut with strain as they listened to Levitan read a state decree. When he finished they erupted with grief or joy depending on the number of rubles each had hoarded under his mattress. The decree abolished: 1) 90% of all unbanked individual savings; 2) rationing of food and clothing...