Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nutley, N. J., John Harris, 25, Negro care taker, took a joy ride in his employer's limousine, was spotted and chased by traffic cops. For five minutes he sped, the police shooting at him. Then he bumped a light in front of a gas station, caromed into an alley, demolished a tree. In the darkness he slunk home, where police found him huddled in a clothes closet, popeyed, a rabbit's foot in each hand. He had also swallowed his tongue...
Keith-Albee--Leatrice Joy in person...
Sergeant Samuel Woodfill received a decoration from the Polish Government to the joy of his fellow Hoosiers, who agree with General Pershing that he was "the greatest hero of the A. E. F.," outshining even Tennessee's potent Sergeant Alvin York...
Five thousand Boy Scouts and 15,000 collegians in Madison, Wis., moaned when Colgate bustled to a three-minute touchdown, howled with joy when Gantenbein, Lubratovich and the Rabholz brothers put one over in the third period and another in the fourth. Wisconsin 13, Colgate...
...avoids pathos is the fact that the old man does not die in the last act. Having convinced his fastidious, fortunate descendants that all the family, including Antonon, who is a truck-gardener and Gabriella, who has borne an illegitimate child, should attend his party, having seen his own joy permeate and weld the lot, his last wish is gratified by the budding passion of his great-grandchildren Trino and Currita, which allows him to hope that he will live to fondle his first great-great-grandchild...