Word: joyousness
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...Joyous Jim, who clings to the coat tails of his great & good friend the Prime Minister (having bolted with him out of the Labor Party), was bluntly told last week (reputedly by Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain) that he could not junket about the world at British taxpayers' expense...
Many a directorate met last week and the main talk of most was what to do about their quarterly dividend. Out of few meetings came any joyous tidings. Three big railroads passed their common dividends: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific ; Maine Central; Lehigh Valley. Two other great systems. New York Central and New York, New Haven & Hartford, cut their quarterly payment from $1.50 to $1 (lowest New York Central rate since 1889). Southern Railroad directors, following earlier decision, discussed no common dividends, ordered none...
Actor Otis Skinnert mild-mannered son of a clergyman, talked with a reporter about the "joyous murderer Hajj" and other badmen he has portrayed on the stage. He sighed. "The only part that I have not played and wanted to play is lago in Othello. There is a delightfully villainous person." Then he said: "I might like to play Al Capone...
...Svetozar will eat-now we can all eat!" was the joyous, famished cry of the other Pribitchevitches. In Belgrade Hospital dauntless old Svetozar Pribitchevitch was propped up in bed by sympathetic nurses. They fed him mush from a bowl. They wiped the old man's chin. When he was discreetly full, they tucked Svetozar Pribitchevitch cozily...
...scale building experience. He will supervise the construction of a new A. M. A. headquarters building in Chicago. The diversion which enthralls him most is golf, and once golf awarded him its most coveted prize: four months ago he lammed out a hole in one. He let out a joyous whoop which was heard "all the way to Alabama...