Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joy as the impecunious Britisher was at his best, the possibilities of the part seemed to appeal to him tremendously, and it was a pleasure to watch his enthusiastic performance, unfortunately slightly marred by a poor final act, a weakness not of his, but of the author. Mr. Turner as the deserted husband was very, very weak...
...world of art, thoroughly sophisticated by now, stops very properly to make sure before applauding. Too many great "finds" have been hailed with delight by the dealers, and praised to the skies, only to turn out to be, "sells", much to the discomfiture of the critics and the joy of the uninitiated...
...word it is a game in which, as in most games, concentrated effort and initiative are factors that decide the issue. It teaches a man the fine arts of resourcefulness and responsibility, two qualities which in any walk of life are worth possessing. The competitor, too, should find a joy and a pride in his labors, the joy that comes when he is trying to do something better than someone else can do it and the pride that comes when he succeeds...
...take kindly to education or to work in the De Lucca Mechanical Laboratories where his father was employed, and so on his mother's death, Enrico, aged fifteen, left home and became a scugnizzo, a wandering singer of the streets, singing for a few soldi or for the pure joy of song. He was called "Arichetielli," and soon became known as the best boy singer in Naples. After that comes the story of his swift rise to fame, too familiar now to need repeating here...
...knowledge in every field. Today, relatively few college students can answer the memory questions which appear in a number of daily papers. They are bound down to one line of enterprise, to one field of study, to one aim in life--to make a living. Wherein is there any joy in such a procedure? Modern students are extremely indifferent to the things about which the world about them is concerned. Their ideas regarding life's problems are very apt to be frivolous ones, based on their beliefs that the men who are running the world today are not as capable...