Word: joyousness
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...advance for 466 years would cost slightly less than the sum† just spent by Great Britain to complete H. M. S. Nelson, most potent of post-War battleships which sailed complete, tested and primed last week, from the yards of her makers at New-castle-on-Tyne. Joyous sirens tooted all adown the Tyne, when the Nelson put to sea; and in British homes many a prideful comparison was made between the most powerful British, U. S., and Japanese battleships: The Nelson The Colorado The Mutsu (BRITAIN) (U.S.) (JAPAN...
...British Royal Family to Englishmen and partly accounts for the World popularity of the four Windsor boys. Even when only two of them are available for a state function they manage admirably to perform their duty to the public. Thus at Quebec last week, thousands of Canadians were joyous as there descended from the S. S. Empress of Australia: 1) His Royal Highness, Edward of Wales, clad Scottishly in the uniform of a Colonel of the Seaforth Highlanders; and 2) His Royal Highness, Prince George Alexander Edmund, wearing the smart full-dress of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy...
...doors. We gain less from the other forms in moral stature, in renewed purpose in life, in kindness and in all the fishing beatitudes. We gain none of the constructive rejuvenating joy that comes from return to the solemnity, the calm and inspiration, of primitive nature. The joyous rush of the brook, the contemplation of the eternal flow of the stream, the stretch of forest and mountain, all reduce our egotism, soothe our troubles, and shame our wickedness. . . . I am for fish. Fishing is not so much getting fish as it is a state of mind and a lure...
...sojourn at Lancelot's castle, Joyous Gard, with the dark
Bostonians wriggled, grimaced and guffawed last week at "a joyous epic; fantasy for the orchestra composed by P. S. Converse, inspired by the familiar legend 'The Ten Millionth Ford Is Now Serving Its Owner.'" When the Boston Symphony ceased its jolting cacophony, no insults were hurled at Composer Converse, bowing on the platform. His sense of humor, unlike that of Composer George Antheil (see above), is not inscrutable...