Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realize what her mother had wished for her. For luckily an English husband rescued her from the missionaries, and later a lover in Paris rescues her from her duty. That she is glad to be rescued, in spite of criticism, consummates at last her mother's ideal of joyous living. Author Glaspell advocates this pagan ideal superfluously. But whatever her "message," she draws with poignancy the conflict and reconciliation between mother and daughter...
...regard to the Jews, the subject is very difficult, but it is better to put the matter frankly," said Insurance Manager H. C. Normington, last week. "In a great number of cases when Jews hire a car they pack it with families and children and drive off for a joyous day's outing in an irresponsible way, not caring a straw about the car, because it is insured. They hire a car for the day and get the absolute maximum...
...Hearst, 40 in 1903, is described "as a young dilettante whose whole time and attention was devoted to making more joyous the days of his lady fair. Hearst and Millicent Willson were like a couple of children in their love making." They were married on April 28 of that year. She was a musical comedy girl...
Widower de Rivera, who has two children, said, during the brief period of his engagement: "Although I am by no means a youth, my character is still joyous. I feel that I am in need of a domestic life...
...joyous banquet was given, last week, by certain smart, shrewd citizens of Paris. All are telephone subscribers. Three years ago they formed an association to threaten and intimidate the Ministry of Commerce (posts & telegraphs) into providing better, faster telephone connections...