Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after the Boer War, Negroes and white men quivered and rose in common prayer before Gypsy Smith. In Chicago in 1889 he sought to oust the devil from the red-light district with a blaring-singing-praying midnight parade. Next day, a hundred tramps and a few daughters of joy came to his co-workers to be cleansed, Gypsy Smith having gone on to the next town. During the World War, he worked with the Y. M. C. A. at the front, went through four gas attacks, was decorated by King George...
...Radcliffe Choral Society completed the triumph achieved in the Mass by an excellent presentation of the stirring chorus in the last movement of the Ninth Symphony. The chorus, somewhat smaller than that which took part in the Mass sang the difficult musical setting of Schiller's Ode to Joy, with the finest of technique and intelligence of expression which might have been expected from the work which this admirably trained group had done earlier in the week. As always much honor must go to Dr. Davison and Mr. Woodworth for their excellent work in training the chorus...
...rather take a swim than a smoke. I want all young people to find the joy I do in reading the Bible. . . . Why-I get more kick out of reading ECCLESIASTES than in having a date...
Kodak-Pathé. Cabled Charles Pathé, president, Pathé-Cinema (red rooster trademark), to George Eastman (kodaks) at Rochester, N. Y.: "It is with great pride and great joy that I have just signed the agreement which associates my name with yours." He referred to last week's purchase of Pathé-Cinema control by Kodak Ltd., Mr. Eastman's English firm. The new company Kodak-Pathé, will be sole distributor of Kodak and Pathé in Western Europe. There are separate Eastman kodak companies in England, Canada, Hungary and Australia...
...full height, was cut down. Soon after, men were describing life as "not dying." Industrialism continued the war, continued slavery. Lincoln's son headed the Pullman Co. Andrew Carnegie vowed to retire to Oxford at 30 but amassed millions instead, and wished another generation the joy he had missed in libraries. Charles Francis Adams went in for railroads. Colorless, sad Howells, despairing Mark Twain, bitter-black Ambrose Bierce were the successors of Herman Melville, whose grappling with the primeval had been tragic but sublime; of Whitman, whom Mark Twain congratulated on having lived to see the marvels of steam...