Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Adam could hardly feel encouraged or complimented by your article, nor do we double up in excruciating joy to learn that we are musically a lummox...
...devastating effect of the tabloids on public morals is shown by Beulah Stevenson in her "Purity," wherein are seen two horror-stricken women, drunk with the joy of morbidity. The headlines are not omitted, typical of the close-to-home-and-nature moralizing of the whole exhibit's soapbox eloquence...
...declared that He will visit for iniquity. ... It was a mercy to the little babes which were involved in this fearful wickedness and suffering to be taken out of it, even through the door of death; for they being irresponsible, would be received into the glory and joy of their Lord...
...Harvard University Register has never been like the Freshman Red Book or the Senior Album, "a thing of beauty and a joy forever", with tooled leather covers, photographs of hundreds of fresh young faces, and a solace in boredom. There is little pleasure in looking up the numbers after the name of your friends to find how many knitted ties they are entitled...
...atavistic; it goes back to the primeval source--cruelty. And it gets results. While Emerson and Appleby with growing displeasure watched a pitiful creature fall down stairs and get hit over the head and make grimaces, a lady (term used by courtesy) next them was overcome with paroxysms of joy. Tears made little canyons down her cheeks and spots on Mr. Hollisheimer's cuff. Finally she was reduced to a jellylike mass, from which issued increasingly faint gurgles as a gun went off in someone's face, or a man got run over by a trolley car. Mr. Hollisheimer gently...