Word: joyousness
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...joyous pilot was a onetime New Zealand music student named Jean Batten. Abandoning her studies in London, she acquired a plane which once belonged to Edward of Wales, set out on a career of distance flying. On England-Australia flights she cracked-up twice, finally made it in 1934. Year later she flew back in record time, became the first woman to make the round trip solo. Last week she again took off from England, this time for a series of swift hops to Thies in Senegal, finally on to Natal for a flawless crossing in the record time...
...such plays as Holiday (1928), Paris Bound (1927), Hotel Universe (1930), Playwright Barry solemnly resolved henceforth to keep his sacred and profane works separate. First result of this decision was a dramatic cropper two seasons ago when he wrote a pious work about some Boston Catholics called The Joyous Season. Taking a reef in his belt, Playwright Barry revealed last winter that, simply to make money enough for Producer Hopkins to present his forthcoming ballet, he was about to turn out Bright Star, which was to be as pleasant and profitable as Paris Bound. Bright Star slipped temporarily behind...
...Joyous Mr. Astor decided to buy an 80-ft. yacht and to call his firstborn, if a male, ''plain William." Joyous Count Haugwitz was felicitated at Karlsbad by a royal wire from his Danish sovereign King Christian X. Anticipating an event far more momentous and expensive than those that overjoyed the U. S. and Danish husbands, joyous Emperor Hirohito set in motion the ponderous, costly mechanism of a Japanese imperial birth. Soon carpenters will whack together in the Fountain Garden the elaborate Maternity Pavilion which has to be built of spotless new materials every time the lean, bespectacled...
...afternoon the convention had a talk from the biggest amateur farmer in the land. Standing on the south lawn of the White House, where Washington moppets traditionally roll Easter eggs, they heard Secretary Wallace introduce from the South Portico "the heart of America"-Franklin D. Roosevelt. When the joyous roaring ceased, the President complimented his audience on being "a pretty good-looking crowd" and, motioning behind him at members of the House Agriculture Committee, remarked that he had "a few members of Congress in captivity with me today." He thought of the occasion, said the President, "as a kind...
...this is National Socialism's greatest and most decisive merit: the transformation of external symbols has been followed by the transformation of the people's soul. In joyous self-discipline uncounted millions have placed themselves in the service of the new idea. Beside the fanatical fighters of our revolutionary National Socialist party have stepped the soldiers of the tradition-richest army...