Word: joyous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfortunate, too, for an attempt to work out the EPIC plan would be a refreshing variation in the mad scramble for booty that goes under the name of politics in California. The sincere, if unsophisticated, idealism of this man who has never worn a dress suit would loom in joyous contrast to the urbanity and nonentity of "Sunny Jim" Rolph...
...Joyous Season (by Philip Barry; Arthur Hopkins, producer) is a solemn and sometimes sprightly investigation of the spiritual life of a family of shell-backed Bostonians. The Parleys live in a dingily magnificent mansion of Beacon Street. Their farm on the Merrimac River and the possibility that existence may contain more for them than security on a "careful, calm, contented four percent" are two of the things that they remember when the maverick of the family, Sister Christina (Lillian Gish), arrives from the nunnery to spend Christmas. Before Christina arrives, the Parleys are worried mainly because they think...
When Irish-Catholic playwrights experience the tug of pious inspiration, the results are likely to be more ennobling than entertaining. The Joyous Season, like Eugene O'Neill's Days Without End, is a serious and ambitious drama, celebrating Faith. It achieves its purpose smoothly but without that wit which, in plays condoning uncomfortable sophistication, gave Playwright Barry his authority. Handsomely produced by Arthur Hopkins, softly performed in a Robert Edmond Jones drawing-room, it provides Lillian Gish with a role which she acts as gracefully as the easier one her chipper sister has in By Your Leave...
...Poughkeepsie on a very hot Saturday morning in August. In front of the courthouse I ran across a group of friends of mine. . . . They kidnapped me-one of the first cases of deliberate kidnapping on record-and took me out to the policemen's picnic. On that joyous occasion of clams and sauerkraut and real beer I made my first speech and I have been apologizing for it ever since...
...Food was hard to get. The capital was more completely paralyzed every day as fewer and fewer shopkeepers opened their doors. The dreaded Porra, President Machado's secret terror squads, odious for their savage murders, boasted of the massacres early in the week when hundreds of joyous citizens, shouting a false rumor "Machado is out!" rushed prematurely toward the Presidential Palace where scores were quickly mowed down by a merciless fusillade...