Word: joyous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faced with a 1 to 0 deficit at the beginning of the second period, the Varsity hockey team rallied in convincing form to defeat Princeton 5 to 2 in a game played at the Boston Skating Club last night. Thus a long losing streak came to a joyous conclusion, for the sextet's last League victory over the Bengals was in pre-war February...
...soft light on the dirty sidewalk, the modest little brass sign--"The Crimson." Vag turned in at the door, with a mental prayer that none of the editors would forget to be there. They hadn't: Cleveland, Brookline, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Cincinnati and New York--what a joyous progeny of Uncle Sam! And there, hanging from the chandelier grinning inanely was Inchball, good old Feather stone cough, who never failed to wing his way from Shangri-La for this sad, glad occasion. Vag felt a sudden exuberance, even before the punch was made; he was amoosed though confoosed...
Funerals became strangely frequent. Always first in processions was Pierre Guichard, dignified beadle of the Cérilly church. Next, the cure, sprinkling holy water with an energy suggesting joyous abandon. Behind him came the coffin bearers, their spirits lighter than the heavy box they bore. Then the black-veiled mourners, bearing their grief with an odd furtiveness...
...Joyous Thermometers. Reported the London Daily Telegraph's A. T. Cholerton: "The Moscow Command orders are: 'Drop your pack and go lightfoot after them. Then you will probably encircle and destroy them piecemeal and, in any case, you will force them to leave their stores behind...
...Woman's Face (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Year ago a handful of U.S. foreign filmaddicts saw limpid Ingrid Bergman play a horribly disfigured heroine in , Swedish production called A Woman's Face. Their joyous squeals got through to jawboned, saucer-eyed Joan Crawford, an actress who had played the G out of Glamor and was on the prowl for a seamy vehicle. Miss Crawford saw A Woman's Face, gulped, took the plunge...