Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have welcomed his contributions in verse and prose. Last year he published Godhead, a powerful story of a "superman" whose original he discovered while covering a strike on the Gogebic iron range, northern Michigan. The contrasting humor and whimsy of his new novel is as astonishing as it is joyous...
...Portland, Me., the 600 pipes of the potent Municipal Organ resounded last week joyous, sonorous, intricate, expensive...
Such a cast has seldom been assembled back of a single stage. They have been supplied with excellent music, a joyous slapstick, a succession of amazingly beautiful sets and costumes. George White asked $55 a seat for the first nine rows. No one demanded money back. The Grand Street Follies. The Neighborhood Playhouse buried in the slums emerges with its annual summer satire. This is the secluded organization that this season astonished and stirred the population with The Dybbuk. From this solemn business they have turned to trifles spun of song and dance...
...where things are getting green as well as sloppy, and where the chilliness of the breeze can be discounted because one naturally expects to be cold in the country. Or it means that he can go to New York (which is what he probably will do) and celebrate the joyous springtime in theatres and other places, so far from pastoral thoughts that he will shudder whenever the taxi careens along the doubtful freshness of Central Park. Those on the Dean's List have long since fitted; perjury and persuasion are the order of the day; still the undergraduate must wrap...
...like a game of button, button. Gossip would take on an important tone that is lacking when it is concerned only with the Watch and Ward society and the Lampoon's difficulties. And the undergraduate body would throw its academic worries into a corner, and depart to be joyous, and return undisappointed, and the bored way in which the College accepts the recess that is doled out to it would be forever replaced by an abiding sense, however, false, that they had really got something for nothing...