Word: joys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dear wife, my joy and life, I freely now do give...
Died. Warner M. Leeds, 57, tin-plate man, brother of the late William B. Leeds, "Tin-plate King"; in Manhattan, of tuberculosis of the lungs. The bulk of his estate, valued at several millions, will go to Joy Leeds, twelve-year-old adopted daughter. Two years ago, Mrs. Leeds died from a fall from the fifth-story window of their home...
What will be the joy then in many simple hearts to learn that the flapping oilskins on the damp boardwalks of Cambridge are also coming to be adorned with hearts, arrows, and an intermingling of significant initials. If only their owners could express that spirit of budding manhood by clapping their hands, nudging one another, and snickering a bit, what fun there would be. There is something about the whole practice so in keeping with the stern traditions that have raised Harvard above the class of giggling schoolgirls that it seems well at this time to offer a gentle word...
...first impulse of the unthinking average student when deprived of a dean more or less would be to shout for joy. But the French are different. The dispatches are meagre in details of why the dean was suspended, but evidently the students feel they have been deprived of the inalienable right to be deaned. They are fighting for university prerogatives say the reports and not the least of these is the right to be advised and reproved when occasion demands. In crises like this, when the whole fabric of education totters on the brink of ruin...
...pounded in his joy...