Word: joyous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon the convention had a talk from the biggest amateur farmer in the land. Standing on the south lawn of the White House, where Washington moppets traditionally roll Easter eggs, they heard Secretary Wallace introduce from the South Portico "the heart of America"-Franklin D. Roosevelt. When the joyous roaring ceased, the President complimented his audience on being "a pretty good-looking crowd" and, motioning behind him at members of the House Agriculture Committee, remarked that he had "a few members of Congress in captivity with me today." He thought of the occasion, said the President, "as a kind...
...this is National Socialism's greatest and most decisive merit: the transformation of external symbols has been followed by the transformation of the people's soul. In joyous self-discipline uncounted millions have placed themselves in the service of the new idea. Beside the fanatical fighters of our revolutionary National Socialist party have stepped the soldiers of the tradition-richest army...
...Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment joyous Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels hailed the Saar result as proof that Germans do not want Democracy, free speech, freedom of the Press, racial equality or cultural liberty. They want Nazi authority, as good Catholics want the authority of Rome, good Communists, the authority of Moscow. Even testy old Admiral von Levetzow, hard-boiled Nazi chief of Berlin police, beamed and bubbled with good humor last week. He decreed that Stresemannstrasse, named after Germany's late, great Nobel Peace Prize winning Foreign Minister (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926), should be renamed Saarlandestrasse. Since beauteous Widow...
...boom. This year the makers of penny arcade machines had hoped to gross $7,500,000. Already their income was above that figure. "Why, the industry's going to take in $12,000,000," chuckled Mr. Rabkin. His colleagues knew that the principal reason for their joyous prosperity was that glass-encased gadget which is currently the most popular and the most profitable of all penny arcade devices-the pin game...
...secret number, which serves the Telephone Company as a check on repaired phones, has become public property since a student spent several hours of idleness trying out different combinations. He guarantees it to enliven an already joyous evening. If the number should not work, the investigator should dial eight instead of nine since Cambridge phones are divided into two classes...