Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large around as the arm of a two-year-old baby. These grew strong, grew larger. Henry became able to wiggle them at will. Artificial arms were carefully fitted over them. He could do things for himself. Best of all he could have regular shirts "with sleeves." His joy when for the first time in his life he was dressed conventionally was so great that the doctors almost cried. He rushed home, in new shirt and suit, to surprise his family. Now he earns his own living by designing Christmas cards, attends the Chicago Art Institute in the probability...
...delight in production and invention with a view merely to more production and more invention is a conspicuous feature of modern industry. The tale told in the February "Current History", by John W. O'Leary, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce, fairly bubbles with the joy of quoting seven figure sums. His article, "Twenty-five Years of American Prosperity", is a paean of industrial progress. For the American may vaunt that the wealth of his country, 89 billions of dollars in 1900, has more than trebled since. Some Croesus power has magically turned a five billion dollar debt...
...that is, the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21 (the vernal equinox). Therefore Easter cannot come before March 22 or after April 25. This inconstancy of Eastertide has irritated money-grubbing merchants, who long have surreptitiously, indirectly exported the spirited, springtime* surge of joy, light and purity felt by celebrants. People have stepped from decorating their altars to decking their bodies, until the Easter Sunday "parade" of fashionables and fops gets more notice in the lay press than does the sanctity of the holiday. This display of clothes and flowers and jewels and carriages...
...scene in its proper proportion." Now the News writer, looking for some item on which he could compose an editorial that would entertain the chicle-chewing rag, tag and bobtail, happened upon Mr. Seitz's article, and the Outlook's comment upon Mr. Seitz. He noted with joy that Mr. Seitz had offered criticism on some of the more unfortunate elements of modern life-the very elements of which the News is Herald and High Defender. Ha! here was dragon's meat indeed. Class prejudice could be stirred up like a muddy puddle. Ignorant and penurious people...
...purpose of our Glee Club to raise the standard of College Singing was a joy to me so long as it was kept within bounds. The Harvard Glee Club deserve great praise as the first to conceive and carry out this purpose, thereby becoming the inspiration and pattern for other Clubs. For many years Harvard in competitions won the first prize and deserved...