Word: joyousness
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...been tried as "irreconcilable enemies of the Soviet State," found guilty, shot. Usually such executions are announced in tiny type on inside pages of Soviet papers. But last week the Government ordered big black headlines, first-page position. So breathlessly fast did events move, so blatantly sincere and joyous seemed popular response to the shootings, that all question of whether the dead men could possibly have provoked a general famine vanished from the realm of practical politics. Point of the savage affair seemed to be that it offered fresh, significant proof of Ivan Ivanovitch's present pressing concern...
...Adelaide, Australia, there was even bigger news than Mr. Scullin's sunstroke. The three-year rain scarcity which has cursed South Australia with meagre grain crops suddenly gave way to what joyous editors headlined as "Splendid Rains...
Last week this hero's wheel of Fortune gyrated madly, splintered, cracked and broke. The people of Buenos Aires, the Army and Navy of Argentina rose in a joyous rather than bloody revolution, cast their sick and aged hombre out and down. They had watched him take their overwhelming vote of two years ago as a lcense to behave as an autocrat, as a dictator more absolute and infinitely more unreasonable than Signor Benito Mussolini. Being staunch Democrats, the people could stand such tyranny no longer-especially in view of Argentina's current business slump, "hard times...
...Prince's plane landed virtually on his own lawn, at Windsor Great Park. His pet Cairn terrier, Cora, barked a joyous welcome. His brothers, the Duke of York and Prince George, greeted him, whisked him away to Fort Belvedere where his parents waited...
Everything is joyous in Texas...