Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alas! to go beneath these light trivialities to the more serious aspects of life. America's contributions are on the negative side of the ledger. America is responsible for the extensive use of cosmetics. America has taken Art and pasted her on billboards. America has taken away the joy of living and substituted instead the joy of spending and of getting in order to spend more...
...technical knowledge of his duties that the present chairman of that committee had displayed. He could not help feeling that the ability and success which Colonel Roosevelt had shown in this, the first of his official tasks, in Washington, was of a character which would not only bring joy and pride to his father's heart, but a peculiar satisfaction to all his father's old friends...
Something ought to be done. If these outbursts of infantile joy cannot be restrained, they can be diverted into more fecund channels. After all, clapping is purely mechanical, a very inadequate outlet for self-expression. Why not, instead, concerted singing of that familiar old song...
...yawns the Freshman out of pure joy of yawning. College is so delightfully boring after the ardors and endurances of school life. Also, he cannot think of anything else...
...city of Boston two Harvard men have lived within my own time who have admirably illustrated the power of sane trained minds to lead their fellow men to the heights where they might contemplate the beauty and joy of every-day life. They followed different paths. Both were intensely American and both abundantly demonstrated their liberality of mind, their tolerant spirit, and their purpose to help all sorts and conditions of men. They did not find it necessary to complain incessantly about the wrongs of the world in which they lived. They dared to rejoice in the blessings which...