Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have entered once again upon that period which is agony for the student and joy to the instructor, according to the average undergraduate's viewpoint. Final examinations are upon us; a day and a night spent in hurried review of a course, remembering dates and names, movements, policies, statesmanship; hurried jottings of calculations, of supposedly important facts (if we know or have an idea of what the instructor likes): charred table-edges from forgotten cigarettes, a blue haze of tobacco smoke, heeled butts crowding the corners. Visions of the instructor who faithfully peruses his text in order that...
Hedwig and Wanda. The Marshal's arrival at Suleiopek precipitated further revelations. To eager news gatherers he confided: "Hedwig's greatest joy is to run barefoot through the forest. Not long ago she ran through some mud and showed me proudly her dirty legs...
...concerns herself in her poetry with joy, not duty, brightness, not rationalism, verve, not meditation. She speaks with distressing boldness. A bespectacled small-statured man of 41, named Joseph Deems Taylor, has written many a musical composition, among the more popular of which is a suite for orchestral rendition called "Through the Looking Glass." Onetime music critic of the New York World, he has attracted much attention to his commentaries because of his extremely readable but authentic criticisms. Signor Gatti-Casazza* is happy to announce that an opera collaborated upon by these two and named The King's Henchman will...
...season's best-selling books is the biography** of a Japanese school boy in his native precincts. Besides much colorful description of the Japanese demimonde, family life, taverns, houses of joy, there are intimate schoolroom pictures and gossip about famed Waseda University.*Creator of Hashimura Togo, whose ingeniously ungrammatical letters satirize U. S. modes, manners...
...precedent to build a memorial in the form of an institution for the betterment of the human physique and a monument for the joy of athletic contest. William H. Ennis...