Word: joys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repeal the 18th amendment and then place an enormous and confiscatory tax on liquor, thus bringing about our complete enslavement. "The time for action is here when our government attempts to step in and forbid the manufacture and sale, unless we pay a tax, of the last and only joy-giving commodity that our country affords. "Let us not give up the ship as long as it will float. We must have some freedom left. Let us stand by and uphold and support the 'noble experiment,'-the 18th amendment-for through the adoption of that law. we have...
Following the Russian, up stood Ger man Delegate Rudolf Nadolny to hail President Hoover's "wise proposals" and express his "particular joy...
...shrines throughout the Roman Catholic world, millions of silent, smoky candles burn out their brief lives. In sum they make a mighty flame of devotion. Singly, each is to some inarticulate worshipper a symbol of prayer, sacrifice, joy or sorrow. Compounded not of tears or smiles but of beeswax, tallow, paraffin, a candle is a concrete thing. It costs money. Traditional practice in Europe (and lately in some U. S. dioceses) is to set a box of candles by every shrine, let the faithful help themselves and leave a small offering in return. Last week this practice was banned...
...placard and followed. The lone star of Texas and South Carolina's crescent & palmetto, only other State ensigns apparent at the convention, swung into line. Walter Newton of Minneapolis, the President's political secretary, seized the Minnesota guidon. Senator Fess snatched the disloyal Wisconsin standard and waved, cackling with joy. The Hamilton (Ohio) Glee Club, a group of funereally garbed songsters who once provided music for Warren Gamaliel Harding's front porch campaign, sang manfully. Chairman Snell rapped for order, smiled when he did not get it, got it not long after without much rapping...
...High above the rostrum a flag fell from the illuminated portrait of the President. Delegate Louis B. Mayer of California, partner in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was there in person to project ghostly slides of President Hoover on screens at each end of the hall. Senator Fess. again cackling with joy, produced a huge Hoover portrait and held it up over his head on the platform. One George English of Alexandria, Va., wearing a Delaware dele gate's badge and intoxicated with joy, went into action as floor cheerleader...