Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great trilogy Ave, Salve, Vale; and his more recent elusively rich and moving Heloise and Abelard (1921). The trouble with these works is, however, that they appeal merely to a small group, select and perhaps elect. Not until last week did George Moore know the crude, earthy, tangible joy of having written a play which London proceeded to applaud, not merely from the lordly stalls but from the common, vociferating gallery...
...that they refrain from wearing bright colored clothes, lest there should be discord in the earnest surroundings of Holy Week, and lest the spell of a "musical masterpiece" be injured. Further, Mr. Gabrilowitch said this: "In all the years of my musical experience I have never found as much joy and inspiration in any artistic task as in the study and preparation of Bach's St. Matthew Passion. The performance . . . represents the work of three consecutive years...
Next (in 1889) came the cellulose film that has made amateur photography a joy and made possible the cinema, one of the 10 largest U. S. industries...
...Mott, a man whose energetic character resembles some laboratory apparatus of light and sensitive leaves, trembling with the great force an exterior electricity has communicated to them. On the night of the first gathering, in the German Sanatorium on the Mount of Olives, Dr. Mott looked about him with joy that burned in his eyes like fire. The game of going to Jerusalem was over now, and there was great work to be done. What this work was, he proceeded briefly to explain...
PHILADELPHIA'S genial publisher--retired--has produced, or helped to produce, another book comparable to his "Twice Thirty". Once again the theme is the joy that comes to the executive who has had the good sense to retire early enough to enjoy the fruits amassed in a busy business life...