Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey where the gasoline war burned hottest Administrator Ickes dispatched a lieutenant to investigate and intervene. By last week joyous Jersey motorists were filling their tanks for less than 10? per gal., tax included. New areas were affected, and in Philadelphia the battle spread to fuel oil, which dropped 1½? per gal. to 5½?. But in East Texas the Federal pressure brought quick results. This week some 50 East Texas refiners agreed to up wholesale gasoline to 11? per gal., 6? above last week's war price...
Dean was the most joyous of the players. As Adams fouled out in the ninth to retire the Reds with three men on. Dean rushed to Delancey to obtain the final ball as a souvenir, shook his hand, shouting, Well, Bill, we play in the World Series...
...long as Mr. Hu continued to fulminate, safe behind his Hongkong gratings, the Nanking Government of Generalissimo Chiang, potent chiefly in Central China, despaired of re-establishing its authority in the South. Last week the great haggle ended in a joyous announcement by Nanking Government officials. They had paid Mr. Hu some $200,000, they said, and he has agreed to leave China under pretext of "a detailed inspection tour of European and other countries...
...would wake her from sin! By God's nails, Wolsey, if she were as religious as I she would 'a' seen it herself!'" Don Marquis makes the bawdy, likeable, blundering king whose amours changed the history of Europe, a human and understandable figure. And the style has the same joyous satirical fillip that made Mohitabel America's favorite gay lady...
...that afternoon and next day, the joyous crowds in Moscow's streets asked one another: "Have they landed yet? Have they been found?" The balloon had been reported drifting southeast of Moscow but nobody was sure. At 3 p. m., behind the Kremlin's closed doors, A. S. Enukidze, stolid secretary of the Central Executive Committee, mounted the rostrum before the Congress. Gravely he began: "Comrades, I have bad news for you. The Osoaviakhim balloon met disaster yesterday afternoon between 3:30 and 5 o'clock near the village of Potisky Ostrog [150 mi. southeast of Moscow...