Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese infantry, slogging up the swampy banks of the Yangtze, supported by Japanese river gunboats and bombing planes, last week took the famed Chinese pottery centre, Kiukiang. their objective for the past month. In joyous terms, as though announcing a victory, the Chinese press boasted of the enormous quantities of shells and bombs the capture of Kiukiang had cost the Japanese. The heroic Chinese defenders of the Lion Hill Forts, sworn to fight to the last man rather than yield, were congratulated for having held out for 72 hours under heavy artillery fire before they fled...
...booklets of matches arrived just in time to be distributed to the milling crowds of politically excited citizens. . . . Midst the joyous shouting of the crowds and while flags were flying in the southern breeze, the Plaintiff and his loyal aides ambitiously distributed the match booklets to the spirited tempo of patriotic airs. . . . Gradually these staunch voters of Tallapoosa County so assembled had occasion to open their booklets of matches to light up their cheroots, and as each did so, the booklet was immediately and indignantly closed and concealed from the eyes of the womenfolk or younger persons thereabouts...
...with Dr. E. H. Ferdinand Porsche, racing-car expert entrusted with directing the manufacture of the Volkswagen, then took a spin in one. The Volkswagen is supposed to run 60,000 miles without mechanical repairs. Its motor, located in the rear, will develop 24 horsepower, will send it 35 joyous miles on a 60-cent gallon of fuel...
...solemn in this joyous week, Netherlanders were rocking with laughter in their cafés at Dutch wags who thought up elaborate jokes like this: A man keeps his hat on as others take theirs off to toast Princess Beatrix, then, just as people begin to give him angry looks, takes off his hat and reveals he is wearing a "baby" hat underneath exactly resembling its "parent...
...Other joyous spectators poured onto the field and held a snake dance, led by the hand, while red flares, held by cheerleaders, illuminated the scene. Cheering and laughing, the crowd swept ontor of the packed stadium, across the Lars Anderson Bridge, and into the Square. There they tied up traffic for 15 minutes as the band played several selections...