Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spring cry horror and alas, and leave for Williamstown--where he might also enjoy the better climate and the winter sports. But in rear lest such should actually be the case, the Vagabond did a bit of investigating here and there throughout the Yard, and discovered--with so much joy that he took the afternoon and went to the movies--that Harvard offers no less than 19 courses intimately connected with the Greek language and literature, in fact what the a for ementioned clipping calls courses in Greek. So let the writer thereof recall to his mind the old saying...
...Christmas is a time of joy and gladness, and the custom of exchanging gifts, greeting cards, and other remembrances which is so generally followed during the holiday season is this happy condition. The observance of the custom of exchanging gifts greatly increases the volume of mail during the month of December and it is therefore necessary to do everything possible to facilitate and its Handling...
...When the policeman told me Petlura was dead I could not hide my Joy. I leaped forward and threw my arms about his neck...
Trial. The case opened with M. Schwartzbard telling the court in a high pitched voice and halting French, his beady eyes gleaming, his face suffused with joy, how he had tracked Petlura down. With a photograph of his intended victim in his pocket and a loaded pistol in another, he was wont to roam the street peering into the faces of passers-by to see if they were Petlura. All this, he said, he did to avenge the assassinations of his coreligionists. Finally, he found and killed...
Soon church bells were ringing, railroad engines screeched, factory sirens shrieked; Belgian and Swedish flags came out like a plague; newspapers published extras. In the evening, so intent were loyal Brussels citizens on celebrating the royal joy, and so little were they disappointed by the advent of a princess instead of a prince, that they poured into the theatres and cafes by thousands, so that seats and tables were not to be had for love or money...