Word: joyousness
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...sage whose Monday evening gatherings in Hollis were to so many young, but not younger, spirits an inspiration and a delight? To rejoice over the appointment to the Boylston chair of the professor whose place in the undergraduate heart is and has ever been unique, will be a joyous occasion to those whose reminiscences are all pleasantly flavored with...
...17th day of May in the year 1886, the sun rose to kiss the orange trees; and men rose with the joyous feelings born of spring. Not much later in the day, an event which put the sun in an unnatural eclipse was announced: The Dowager Queen Maria had given birth to a son, six months after the death of her husband. No longer was little Maria Queen; Alfonso XIII, a baby not yet in swaddling clothes, had in theory become King from the minute of his birth. Madrid was burned to a cinder in a great fire of enthusiasm...
...growing prominence of Latin athletes Heywood Broun envisions the approaching displacement of the Spartan ideal of ascetic preparation by an Athenian regime of unrestrained living and joyous unconcern. The gloomy "Nos" and "Do nots" of Calvinistic coaches are to be replaced by red wine and an engaging spirit of good fellowship. The "fight talk" of between halves, which can only be compared with the "miserable sinners repent" discourses of Puritan ancestors, will give way to an informal mingling of the athletes with the spectators...
...Charles G. Dawes. She lives in Rest Cottage, which was the home of Frances E. Willard, founder of the movement, and which was left by Miss Willard as a legacy to Miss Gordon. The delegates made a pilgrimage to this shrine of their Union on the occasion of "the joyous culmination," as Miss Gordon termed the Jubilee. With nearly 500,000 members and 20,000 local unions in the U. S., with Unions in 51 countries and delegates present from all the hemispheres, pointing to the past with pride, looking to the future with the keenest anticipation, the parent organization...
People who had always seen Maude Adams there before missed her terribly. They remembered what a quizzical Peter she was, how wistful, how shy, how genuinely joyous, how she tugged at your heartstrings and did all the little things "just right." This time, Marilynn Miller was there instead, ever so pretty ; light and bright and fair as a fairy. Happy, too - but that was just it. She was too happy, like a musical comedy girl. And she danced too well, too wisely...