Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presidential decree the holiday was Peru's "Day of Joy." Just 46 years prior she had lost the so-called "War of the Pacific" (1879-83), and victorious Chile then seized Tacna-Arica as war spoil. Negotiations begun with President Harding as arbiter, carried virtually to conclusion under President Coolidge, and topped off in the first few months of the Hoover regime, resulted in the present 50-50 compromise of giving Tacna back to Peru. Last week in Lima, maids and matrons deliriously dancing on "Joy Day" brought a crown of solid gold laurel leaves to bantam President Leguia, ecstatically...
...Zurich, Switzerland. There, outstanding Jews of the world had assembled, for the meeting of the Jewish Council Agency, the new body uniting the Zionist and non-Zionist factions of Jewry (TIME, Aug. 19). Three hours before the fast of Tisha B'Ab began, there had been tears of joy, embracing, glad shouts of "Mazeltov!" (Congratulations) as Zionists and non-Zionists had signed a pledge to work in harmony for the Jewish National Home in Palestine...
...when the casual motorist in New England will have a new joy. He will drive up to a handsome colonial edifice set in a little park plot with poplar trees about it and there he will satisfy both his machine and himself. For the machine there will be gasoline and oil; for the man there will be hot dogs...
...ranch he quickly told his daughter the rest of Mr. Ziegfeld's story?Ruby Keeler, pert star of Show Girl, third wife of Al ("Mammy") Jolson, had been mysteriously stricken during a performance. With a twinge of sympathy for Ruby, a burst of joy for her own good fortune, Dorothy Stone ran to pack...
...July 8), kept their Stinson-Detroiter-Whirlwind flying far into last week, made a new record- 174 hr. 59 sec. They made 24 refueling contacts, used 1,903 gal. of gasoline, 87 of oil. Only their own exhaustion brought them down. Motor and plane were in serviceable condition until joy-crazy Clevelanders ripped at them for souvenirs. Also joyous, Otto I. Liesy, vice-president of Stewart Aircraft Co., who financed the project, kissed the flyers-both hard-boiled Army men. Popular son-of-a-brewer, Backer Liesy is famed for bouncing parties at his suburban home...