Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Worst of all, from the Danish standpoint, George II took in debate, st week, the affirmative side-exalting brawn over Brain. To joyous Oxford students it was a jolly, royal joke; but presumably King Christian X of Denmark was vexed to read that his George II had said in debate...
...Occidentals understand that idea - there would be several more days of pomp, during which the Tenno would personally inform the Sun Goddess what had occurred and offer her with filial piety the sacred rice (boiled). Finally, with hearts uplifted and pure, Emperor and Empress will participate in three joyous Grand Banquets, visit the Shrines of the Imperial Ancestors, and lastly open the national Chrysanthemum Party, gayest fête of the Japanese year...
Thereafter Prince and Princess stepped from the holy quiet of the Kashikodo-koro, (where only the ancestors, the Emperor, and a few of the Imperial House may enter) into the sudden blazing sunshine of the city, Tokyo. A joyous roar of Banzai greeted them, for 60,000 persons had stood impatient in the heat, waiting to cheer...
...Japan paid joyous homage, for the bridegroom is Yasuhito, Chichibu-No-Miya, 26,-Prince and heir-presumptive to the Throne;* and the bride is Setsuko Matsudaira, 19, daughter of popular Tsuneo Matsudaira, who was Japan's Ambassador at Washington until he went home for the Imperial Marriage...
...Just a sweet little green island set in the blue waters of the Irish Sea, with its rolling hills and slumbrous glens, full of gorse and heather and fern; three or four quaint little fishing ports and one larger town devoted to the joyous and rather rollicking life of the visiting industry...