Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...realization of this hope, with the ominous danger of war removed once for all, men may once more strive and hope and achieve whatever makes up a life of happiness and helpfulness. It is the removal of a great scourge, and the millions of Americans who responded in joyous celebration this week, abandoning themselves to the spirit of jollity in an unrestrained manner, gave ample indication of the most powerful factor in the winning of the war--namely, the undying hope which has always been uppermost in the hearts of the American people, and the firm knowledge that our cause...
...custom of staid old age, when wearied with a continuous state of staidness, to cast aside its robes of wisdom and revel in the joyous disregard of youth. Ordinarily such unexpected return to the age of folly is diagnosed as second childhood, but when indulged in by Seniors, those omniscient swayers of destiny, it is called the Senior Spread...
...women and children are left to sorrow over the loss of those who so freely died. Nothing in life may compensate to them for the broken bonds, the shattered family ties, the lost hopes of a more joyous future when this dark war should end. The tragedy of the martyr is condensed in one brief moment of sacrifice: the tragedy of the mourner is ceaseless...
...pajamas or fur coats at night, or in less picturesque garb at day, the pleasure seekers follow the clanging engine. The light of the fire is in their eyes. Their minds are joyous for the sight of great building crashing, and brave firemen being overcome, and fair heroines on eleventh stories jumping into their anticipating arms. True, such luxuries are seldom realized. The end of the fire-seeking trail is generally a wood-shed or a chicken-house which some urchin has se alight. Fair heroines are scarce; and tall sky-scrapers refuse to burn except at uncertain intervals...
...still be the emotional ministrations of Dr. Sunday. Brightening the corners at the Tabernacle and perhaps darkening the corners of the mind, that interest will wax and wane. After that we know well what great thing will come. It will be Christmas, and the holly and misletoe, and the joyous annual exchange of gifts. No human interest like Christmas! Once it did not exist at all in New England! It was necessary to create it. It was created, and it filled the bill. It came in response to a demand of the human heart. There are those who think that...