Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smiling prophet of woe, Indiana's Senator Watson, now Republican leader, went to the White House to tell President Hoover that the special session of Congress would probably extend through the summer and into the autumn. President Hoover heard this prediction without joy...
...sentiments, his regard for truth, his loyalty, his conception of justice, and his capacity for work are dealt with in detail. Schwab says that the Negro is not lazy. "He is merely unoccupied because he has no imperious motive forcing him to work more than he does... His supreme joy is to impress others, even if only for an instant, and for this he will work long and hard... A chief we knew insisted on having a motorcycle. The boy who was to run it for him knew how to start it, but little about how to guide or stop...
...this time an echo of the joy is felt in Cambridge. For the voting seniors have taken the edge off the old song, "Don't send my boy to Harvard". Next to the college on the hill, Harvard is chosen closest to the hearts in green. Yale is Dartmouth's keenest rival: the Indians picked Smith as their favorite woman's college. In the choice another significant note is discernible in the balloting, for Dartmouth men may justly claim the virtue of consistency...
...book collector's service to the mind of mankind cannot be overestimated. Private collections are a joy to their possessor, and often enable scholarship to perform work more congenially than is possible in a public institution. By placing their valuable possessions at the disposal of scholars and learned societies, many collectors have enriched literature. By their public spirit they have glorified public collections. It is not difficult to realize the value to scholars, and thence to literature, of the accessibility of books in such collections as the Widener at Harvard, the Huntington in California, and the Morgan in New York...
...discussing at Paris his recent audience with the Holy Father, Cardinal Dubois said: "He mentioned his joy in being able henceforth to travel about freely. Sooner or later the Pope, who claims world-wide spiritual dominion, will visit every part of the globe, America not excepted, of course. The imagination is staggered when one comes to think of what will happen when a Pope sets foot in New York. I do not say that the present Pontiff will attempt it, although, personally, I am sure, he is willing enough. But the day will come...