Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strutting proudly in the village next day, Signor Donnarumma crowed: "What joy! I have a son. and one of the twins has died...
...velvet bodice. The painting was on two layers of canvas, bore on the back the inscription: "Taken from the wood and put on canvas by Hacquin at Paris, 1777."* It had been acquired by the Lardoux family from an aide of Napoleon Bonaparte. Mile. Lardoux owned it with joy, because, in 1916, Georges Sortais, French connoisseur, had pronounced it in writing to be the work of Leonardo da Vinci...
...particularly disappainting to have the Reverend Doctor Streeter congratulating himself on having discovered the sex solution par excellence in the joy of renunciation for its own sake as an admirable example to others. Somehow the logic of renouncing something that is not worth renouncing for one's self so as to impress others with doing the same for the same reason has never pleased this reviewer...
...fine lad he was, and he wanted to win an H, to fill his old parents with joy. For nearly eighteen years he's been able to run. So he thought there was his chance...
...undergraduate the system opens opportunities for currying parental approval unequalled even by the palmy first grade days when Mamma beamed her joy over the coveted "Ex" in deportment: No matter how gray the skies may hang over such courses as Philosophy A or Evolution 6, the mediocre but conscientious Tufts student can now know that the brightest of silver linings beams out from the old report card with an A in Conventional Religion 1. It is better perhaps not to consider the fate of the always possible naughty boy who by a miscalculation or the failure of the alarm clock...