Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Silent Partner. It seems that in Leatrice Joy's pictures it would usually be better to paint out all the characters and scenery but herself. She is so thoroughly attractive that the rest, mattering not at all, should be blankness as well as silence...
...Joy shoos away from her attractive, gambling husband. But she employs an old, old shoo: she saves money on the side. When the crash comes they depart to hatch a new life out of her nest...
...builder and partner in the Greenwich (Conn.) Yacht Yards. Wincapaw was piloting his flying boat in a pleasure trip over Lake George, with two passengers, a Miss Wilson of New York and a Mr. Thomas Light, when a gust of wind wrapped the lady's skirt round the " joy stick " or control column. Frantic efforts to disentangle it failed, and in a wild swoop the seaplane struck the water of the lake with terrific impulse. A sliver from a wing strut pierced the pilot's skull, but the unconscious woman and the other passenger, suffering from a broken...
There's a moral somewhere. But it is fairly difficult to worry about plots and morals when Agnes Ayres, Mary Astor, Leatrice Joy and Ben Turpin are thrown in simply for atmosphere...
...half the total amount ($1,000,000) needed for the completion of this library has already been received or is pledged. Gifts . . . keep pouring in and will continue to come until the end is reached . . . to give to his Majesty, the King, and His Eminence, our beloved Cardinal, the joy and happiness of celebrating the 500th anniversary (1925) of the foundation of the University of Louvain in a completed library, that will stand as an everlasting monument to American interest and American affection for Belgium and her people...