Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presented with a fine, youthful sense of travesty, even to the period programmes and the scenery with chairs painted on the walls. Occasionally the characters blare out songs, without provocation. Clare Eames teases her part a trifle, but Walter Abel and Mary Morris are a joy in their monumental solemnity. Its naivete is good fun, for average citizens as well as antiquarian...
...succeeded so subtly in combining real sentiment with the vernacular. His poems in slang have been at once beautiful, tender, well written. He has intuitive knowledge of the boy and girl of shop and street, their trials, their loves. If his play possesses the same quality of joy and sorrow that is shown in his poetry, it should run forever, and even if he forgets the popular accents of New York on the sands of Palm Beach, he cannot lose there his wistful, shy boys and girls who drift through his pages...
...Bishop of Massachusetts, William Lawrence, published a little book (TIME, Jan. 14). Liberals in the Episcopal Church reviewed it with joy. Insurance President Fiske sent a copy of the book to his old friend, the Rt. Rev. Charles Gore (Bishop of Oxford from 1911 to 1919, famed High Churchman of the Church of England) because the book quoted Dr. Gore in support of its thesis. Dr. Gore replied...
...higher pleasure, even from the selfish point of view; than can the gratification of the desire so common among savages and barbarians, and the possessors of child minds in general, for the hanging in convenient places about the body and clothing of shiny bits of metal and stone? This joy is innocent enough, in itself, but it is so-well, primitive...
...this aerial activity has disheartened Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the apostle of the "friendly Arctic." Polar exploration is not what it used to be, he laments, and he is going to quit. Modern inventions, safety and comfort have lessened the joy of the venturesome explorer and it is now a humdrum sort of job. Stefansson believes the Shenandoah will attain her goal without mishap...