Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Though I too have lost a dear one, I think only of victory. We must carry on, no matter what the cost.'" The Colonel would "carry on," as he had done all his life, yet "on the day when the whole of America was in a frenzy of joy...
...colors of the spectrum were faithfully reproduced, delicately shaded even at the violet (short wave) end. The inventor, Herr Professor Emil Wolff-Heide, was hailed by colleagues for having made "the greatest advance in photochemical research of the decade." The cinema public waited to see its evening's joy illuminated with radiant sunsets, hot colloquial color, ravishing flesh tints...
...research revealed that the appropriations were $470,886,681 more than those of the previous session, but were six odd millions below the original estimates submitted to the 69th Congress. Senator Warren found joy in these figures: "Good times and prosperity are immediately reflected in a demand for increased as well as new governmental functions. . . . No Congress ever made a greater record or a harder and more honest and faithful effort for economy...
...glittering new houseboat rode majestically on the head waters of the Amazon. On the deck stood a missionary, his wife, and their little South American Indian princess. On the tropic shore, all the little Incas went "Inck, inck, inck," danced with joy to see the long-awaited galleon. Some such vision swam before the eyes of Reverend and Mrs. F. A. Stahl when announcement was made last week at a Seventh Day Adventist camp near Worcester, Mass., that they had been presented with a houseboat by Mrs. Heber Herbert Votaw, wife of a superintendent of federal prisons, sister...
...April 23, in the 19th year (1844) of the reign of His Majesty, Kamehameha III, Daniel Dole and his wife Emily Ballard, missionaries of Christ to the Kanakas, took great joy. Their joyance was not in their official capacity, for there were still troublous times in the Sandwich Islands. For nearly 25 years American missionaries had been establshed on the Islands, and although human sacrifice, polyandry, polygamy and the unspeakable punalua were disappearing and a prohibition law had been enacted, license and drunkenness were still rampant and, only five years before, French Naval officers had raped the laws...